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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.
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.
So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.
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.
I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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.
A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.
And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.
