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"I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films."
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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."


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


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


"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."


"I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised."


"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."


"It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end."


"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."


"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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