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"I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films."
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"Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about."
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"But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended."
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"For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true."
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"One thing I've learned about vampires--they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention."
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"With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible."
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"What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up-Ho-HO! Now you've got something that stirs the, um, something that stirs things that are stirrable. BOOM! A pack of ravenous flesh-eaters breaks open their heads and sucks out their eyeballs. No need for iambic pentameter because they are grunting, groaning annihilators of humanity with no time for meter. You're not asleep in the back of English class anymore, are you? This is what I'm talking about. Zombies. Learn it, live it, love it."
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"Fiction gives us empathy: It puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over."
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"We'd read about sirens in English this fall; Greek mythology bullshit about women so beautiful, their voices so enchanting, that men did anything for them. Turned out that mythology crap was real because every time I saw her, I lost my mind."
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"Guess we're going north," Dev said slowly."Everyone, follow Lassie.Timmy's in the well."
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"I write fiction""What's fiction?""Fiction is an improvement on life."
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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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"No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil."
Career
"I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films."
Fiction
"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."
Act
"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."
Ambition
"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
"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."
Development
"The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted."
Time
"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
"Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it."
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