Julio Torres

You know, you hear about people being fashionistas or maximistas.

It's like, oh, a problemista is someone who is attracted to problems or thrives within problems.

I am someone who is certainly attracted to problems and ends up making work inspired by those problems.

Well, this movie.

What was the problem?

I mean, obviously, the bigger problem that was solved by the time I made this movie was the visa problem and how that ended up not being a hurdle that I had to overcome to then move on and make work.

That ended up being the thing that I made the work about.

and just sort of the joy that I found in dealing with that problem.

You know, this movie deals with the problem of immigration, but I think of it as a very silly, happy and joyful movie.

That just sort of, it's almost like the bureaucracy becomes this bouncy castle that the characters just get to play and laugh about.

And then there's also just like the fact that like it's my first movie and I made something that is so ornate, for lack of a better word.

I was like, oh, OK.

So this is why people's first movie are usually smaller.

Yeah.

It's a lot.

I really didn't.

Yes.

Yeah.

I mean, thank God that none of them are high maintenance people.

But to be completely honest, now that I look back on it, I think that I didn't take for granted the access that I felt was granted to me by making a movie.