Quotes by Brazilian authors

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"It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a little less than having Barbies touching each other. But they started with that"

Gisele Bundchen, Model

"I'm not an actress, you know. I don't know what's going on. And I'm supposed to be the villain"

Gisele Bundchen, Model

"I feel grateful because I have a lot of love in my life. I found the person I'm sharing my life with. I have a good man"

Gisele Bundchen, Model

"If you have your wife, and you are proud of something she's done, wouldn't you go and support her in something? That is what I was trying to do"

Gisele Bundchen, Model

"I'm very interested in charities. I help a lot of different charities"

Gisele Bundchen, Model

"I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic"

Gisele Bundchen, Model

"I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week. I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals. I was mindful about what I ate, and I gained only 30 pounds"

Gisele Bundchen, Model

"Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise"

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Politician

"My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world"

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Politician

"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"

Walter Salles, Director

"I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films"

Walter Salles, Director

"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"

Walter Salles, Director

"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"

Walter Salles, Director

"We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action"

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Politician

"I don't need arms, and neither does anyone else... At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly"

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Politician

"Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us"

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Politician

"Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market"

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Politician

"Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations"

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Politician

"A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all"

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Politician

"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"

Walter Salles, Director

"No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil"

Walter Salles, Director

"It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end"

Walter Salles, Director

"I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times"

Walter Salles, Director

"I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent"

Walter Salles, Director

"A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots"

Walter Salles, Director

"The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil"

Walter Salles, Director

"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film"

Walter Salles, Director

"My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture"

Walter Salles, Director

"I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films"

Walter Salles, Director

"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"

Walter Salles, Director

"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"

Walter Salles, Director

"So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country"

Walter Salles, Director

"There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present"

Walter Salles, Director

"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"

Walter Salles, Director

"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"

Walter Salles, Director

"And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past"

Walter Salles, Director

"So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil"

Walter Salles, Director

"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"

Walter Salles, Director

"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"

Walter Salles, Director

"You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor"

Sonia Braga, Actress

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