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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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"Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about."
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"The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'."
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"It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable."
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"I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing."
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"We get along really well, but TV and film aren't reality. We're best friends, but we do have our fights!"
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"I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at it."
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"I've never made a film using dialogue or speech."
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"I'm a film doll. But I'm enjoying it. So I'm gonna keep doing it."
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"I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell."
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"We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent."
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"It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end."
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"No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil."
Career
"I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films."
Fiction
"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
"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
"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."
Film
"The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along."
Development
"The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted."
Time
"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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