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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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"The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box."
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"The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before."
"Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years."
"You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right."
"I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan."
"The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament."
"Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years."
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"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."
"There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end."
"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."
"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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