Quote:
"I started as an actor and didn't have ambitions to direct. At some point I had a story to tell and wondered if it could be a play. That would have been easier, since I knew how to do it. I had no education as a filmmaker, aside from being on film sets. But as I thought through the images I wanted to transmit in this story I realized it wanted to be a film. So I made a film—The Passion of Rita Camilleri—and every film since has been about finding the language to explore a theme or idea. Like Tell Us the Truth, Josephine, in which I walk across Canada on stilts as a way to think about immigrants. Everything I want to do is driven by images, themes, ideas."
-- Valerie Buhagiar

Source:
Teodoro, José. "An interview with: Valerie Buhagiar; 'It's scary to make a film about God and limbo'." Interview with Valerie Buhagiar. TFCA: Toronto Film Critics Association, April 18, 2019.