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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
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"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
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"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."
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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
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"The past is but the past of a beginning."
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"To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending."
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"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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"I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print."
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"The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end."
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"I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley."
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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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"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."
Beginning

"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 when I was very young, I longed for Brazil."
Desire

"There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present."
Development

"So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country."
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"When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT."
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"The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America."
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"The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil."
Diversity

"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."
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