One of the struggles and one of the exciting things for South African filmmakers is: What stories are we allowed to tell? I hope for the industry that more and more, it will tell whatever stories it likes.

When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.

Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.

That's because the South African way of doing it is to give yourself advice.

The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.

He hasn't been allowed to come to the showroom because I wanted it to be a surprise.