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"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."
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"My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form."
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"I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way."
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"I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that."
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"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
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"You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked."
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"Looper is another great film."
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"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."
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"The director is the only person who knows what the film is about."
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"In any film there's always a historical implication."
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"For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave."
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"There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present."
Development
"So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country."
Family
"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."
Film
"The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil."
Diversity
"I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised."
Nation
"The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them."
Act
"But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later."
Beginning
"So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens."
Ambition
"Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa."
Collaboration
"That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think."
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