We wanted to make something that spoke from the heart to the heart.

I still believe there's someone out there for our film.

If we'd made it in the conventional way, we would have lost a lot of the feeling that came from things happening in the moment.

From the beginning there was an element of fate about the project.

It's an individual taking a journey, that's the perspective. It happened here, but it could happen anywhere. The idea of leaving home is universal. It's about the idea of finding home and what is home.

In the 13 years I served, we never had a problem. But I feel we are going downhill.