“As a filmmaker there are stories of people in my community that are overlooked. Werewolf emerged at a time when I was moving back to Cape Breton from Halifax after a few years, and friends of mine we’re all talking about wanting to leave. One friend was saying he wanted to leave, but never did, and I started to think about this people who seem to be stuck and can’t escape. Some people in these small industrial towns I know haven’t even been able to drive elsewhere on the island. For me as a young person to decide to live on Cape Breton is unconventional because it has the highest outmigration in Canada. So I started to focus on the struggle I was seeing around me there, a lot of darkness, mental illness, and suicide, and I wanted to understand what was happening in my community.”

“These days I start with almost nothing. I deal usually with places and actors, actresses—not characters. I meet them almost with no intention. I just have this feeling, “maybe I want to see this guy or this woman,” then I call them and if they want we have a meeting and I try to see him or her just as a person. I'm not interested in what they did in other pictures. Sometimes I haven't seen any of their pictures. It's okay, it doesn't matter; I just see him or her as a person. I know that when you meet someone you always have a feeling or impression. That small impression is usually the first beginning. That impression always leads me to think about something, reminds me about someone in the past, some situation or dilemma. A small thing, but it's the beginning.”