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"When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT."
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"Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling."
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"There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great."

"When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with."
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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."


"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."


"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."


"It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end."


"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."


"My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture."


"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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