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"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."
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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
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"I think it's a lame excuse for a lot of these rappers to say they only call girls bitches or hos because they act like that. It doesn't make them right."
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"After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it."
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"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."
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"Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts."
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"And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America."
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"It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it."
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"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!"
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"The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go."
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"We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself."
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"So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country."
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"I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films."
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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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"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

"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

"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."
Fiction

"So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil."
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"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."
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"And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past."
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