"I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films."

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"I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films."

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

Desire

"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

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

Life

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

Development

"The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil."

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"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

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"No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil."

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