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"So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country."
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"I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films."
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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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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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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."
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"When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT."
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"I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent."
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