Cannes made me think about transformation — how cinema takes raw footage and breaks it apart in editing to create something that moves us. I wanted a woman who does that same violence tenderly. The Marshallese navigate by wave patterns; the Sicilians have lived with volcanic destruction for millennia. Both cultures understand that shattering isn't ending — it's beginning. I gave her that smile because she knows something we don't: that the glass she breaks tonight becomes the pigment that paints tomorrow's sacred vessels. She's not destroying. She's translating. — Volt