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"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."
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"When you reach the mountaintop look upand think of how high you must leap to reach the stars."
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"It is how hard you want, what you want that gets it."
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"If size does matter, then dream-n-do big!"
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"If you water your dreams with excellence, success will grow."
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"Making your mark in the world is better than making trouble."
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"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."
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"Your problem is in thinking the sky's the limit. Why set limits?"
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"I chase goals, not girls."
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"Life is full of limitless opportunities. You ought to seek them."
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"The desire of most people on earth is to make money and money seems to be the greatest motivation in life for a lot of people."
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"There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present."
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"So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil."
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"The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America."
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"I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films."
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"I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent."
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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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"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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"It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end."
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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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"When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT."
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