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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."
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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."
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"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
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"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."
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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."
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"Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country's well-being."
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"The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it."
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"Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in."
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"There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it."
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"I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount."
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"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."
Film
"The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil."
Diversity
"My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture."
Life
"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
"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."
Literature
"I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films."
Fiction
"The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America."
Support
"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."
Nation
"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
"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
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