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"I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films."
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"May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest."
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"Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets."
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"Sometime later the islanders on a little rimward atoll were amazed to find, washed into their little local lagoon, the wave-rocked corpse of a hideous sea monster, all beaks, eyes and tentacles. They were further astonished at its size, since it was rather larger than their village. But their surprise was tiny compared to the huge, stricken expression on the face of the dead monster, which appeared to be have been trampled to death."
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"In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible."
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"There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong."
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"Vampires did not avoid mirrors because they cast no reflection but because mirrors became so unflattering with the illusion of fuzzy focus wrenched away."
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"It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs."
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"Villainessa Tittel was a hired killer, an assassin by trade. She had enjoyed the best education and had been trained by assassins who had (until then at least) been considered the best in the business. She had turned to 'cleaning' as an occupation because she really enjoyed endings more than beginnings " and anyway, she didn't need to know her mark's entire pedigree or life's story, or to have some kind of facetious moral justification just to collect her fee. Unsurprisingly, when she did read " on those rare occasions " her books were always dog-eared from the back."
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"I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal."
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"Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish."
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"There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present."
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"The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America."
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"I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films."
Fiction
"I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent."
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"My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture."
Life
"It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end."
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"When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT."
Film
"And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past."
Influence
"So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country."
Family
"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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