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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

"There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them."

"A mansion begins with one brick. A forest begins with one tree. A harvest begins with one seed. An ocean begins with one drop. A friendship begins with one gesture. A fire begins with one spark. A revolution begins with one idea."

"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."
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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."


"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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