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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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"Incredible ideas, results, and outcomes are possible when two or more minds come together for a common purpose."

"But things can happen in a band, or any type of collaboration, that would not otherwise happen."

"I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist."

"I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go."

"I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days."

"It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert."

"When building your team look for people who are disciplined even before they came to the Lord."

"There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up."

"Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are things Eric thinks I'm moving too quickly on, and there are things I think he's dragging out. When it gets to the editor they can arbitrate."

"You cannot build a strong team unless you teach your people discipline."
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"There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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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