He began his career as an actor and now excels as a director, acting for George Nanouris has been on the edge for a while but is always there, on the bench, for when he feels the need to re -erection again on stage.

Speaking to Athens Nega and the “Better” show, the talented actor and director revealed what his motivation was over the years, how the directing came to his life and the battle he fought with depression.

-Is it a bad thing to ambition?

“It is not a bad thing at all, but this is not my case. It goes without saying that I want the things I do to go very well and be loved and liked, who doesn’t want it. But I had no dream of becoming a director, I had no such ambition at all, it’s something that life brought me, it came that is great to work well for it and see.

I think what always mobilized me was the need. I have chosen a profession that is a freelance profession, it is not necessary to go well, it is most likely not going well.
I’m alone in life I don’t have a back up back so my main motivation in the first special years was, I have to work because I have to live. I say it as good, it’s a good thing to motivate … because it is in a process that your mind is to solve problems and that has always been creative. “

-Apart from an actor you are also of philosophy. Why does an actor become a director?

“I had no idea that I was going to deal with directing and I had no idea that I might be inclined there. It became completely accidental and coincidentally at a time of my life when things were very difficult and I tried to do something. Then life began to show me that every time I try to direct something, something is relatively big. That is, it is very acceptable and loved by the world. “

-So you do it for the lucky way …

“I did it because I didn’t expect to stay at home, something like that. I went through a depression, the classic we all go through. A process that, more or less, somehow we all passed. Another heavier, another lighter. And the way to get out of there was to act, to do something about it »

-Did it come from an unemployment period?

“No. This did not arise from a period of unemployment, but it was a period of dystopia because it was in the crisis where things were very wild and unprecedented for all of us. So I wanted to do something on my own, something of mine, not to expect anyone to hire me. So I did “Katerina”, with little to zero budget and that opened another way and I decided to see and hear what life brings me. Without deciding.

And for me it was unprecedented to come to me in life that I haven’t organized or planned. It was something new and I said … to see it … the directing is a completely different track, another level and because I was still learning to lower me down because they were not both at the same time. But it’s there and when I feel the need to be on stage again I’ll do it. “