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"I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent."
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"Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it's more friendly to the United States."
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"We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course."
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"In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity."
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"The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening."
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"The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis."
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"They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf."
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"In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained."
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"I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears."
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"Paris ain't much of a town."
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"Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here."
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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."
Fiction
"The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil."
Diversity
"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
"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
"So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country."
Family
"When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT."
Film
"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
"No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil."
Career
"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
"And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past."
Influence
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