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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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"Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a total klutz."She smirked. "A job, eh?" Making things in your forge?""Nah, we could start our own shop," Leo said, surprising himself. Starting a machine shop had always been one of his dreams, but he'd never told anyone about it. "Leo and Calypso's Garage: Auto Repair and Mechanical Monsters."
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"I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one."
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"Don't go woman on me and tell me you don't need a man to complete you. It's bullshit. Woman looks like you, goddamn waste. But a woman who has the love you got to give, that's not a waste. That's a crying shame."
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"There is nothing wrong with wanting more. There is no reason why you should n't get everything you want from life."
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"It was strange to have those papers signed. Like any big project or crisis that takes every waking and non - waking moment in your life, it was odd to have it concluded. A move, a college degree, a wedding - something long - strived - for is completed, whatever the outcome, and there is a huge space where it all once was. All that open time now, and a continuing nagging sense that there's something you need to be doing."
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"Status: the perpetual carrot that entices us from the front and prods us in the back."
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"Don't be afraid to have goals and dreams. Even in the face of haters and those who do not believe in you, don't stop dreaming."
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"Step beyond the scopes and limits because a narrow minded person has such boundaries of thinking "I cannot , but I must."
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"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."
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"Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted."
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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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"Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it."
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"The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America."
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"I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films."
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"I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent."
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