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"So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil."
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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."
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"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."
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"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."
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"Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural."
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"Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire."
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"Piper's lust was like a single bear trap in the wilderness. It was nearly impossible to find if you were looking for it, but it was something you wanted to be prepared for if you stepped into it by accident."
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"Djuna had wanted a life of desire and freedom, not luxury but beauty, not security but fulfillment, not perfection but a perfect moment like this one..."
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"The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity."
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"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem."
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"Lust and love. They both put a fire in your damn shorts."
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"It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end."
Support
"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
"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."
Diversity
"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
"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
"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."
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