“In every film I’ve made, whether it relates to my own culture or to another, the commitment to speak nearby has been extremely challenging. When you do not want to speak as a ‘knower’, you talk with a lot of blanks and holes and question marks. Perhaps you have no desire to fix meaning, which may sometimes lead you to a place of nonsense. But, in language, even when you work with nonsense, people find meaning. In my writing and film practice, I work simultaneously with sense and nonsense and the new is often made to fare with the very old. It is naive to think that we can simply raze to the ground everything we have learned – which is a modernist delusion. Once you are colonized, it’s not as if you can simply reject everything the colonizer has brought in. We unavoidably import, internalize and adapt, often unintentionally, the master’s tools and values. However, to put them to use when necessary is very different from unquestioningly letting them drive our political outlook on life.”