It's like I'm stuck in a time bubble. Memories keep coming back, and of course, memories are a huge part of literature and cinema, from "Stand by Me" to "Blade Runner."

Sonia Braga

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When Sônia [Braga] talked about the script in detail, it was as if she had seen the film [Aquarius] last night, even though it hadn't existed yet. It was a completely bulls - t-less reaction, so I knew it had to be her, and she has been great ever since.

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I think the film [Aquarius] comes from that original feeling I had 18 years ago, when I was in a São Paulo supermarket. I was in line to pay for something, and when I looked up, I saw the little windows of a projection booth. That's when I realized the supermarket used to be a movie theater. They didn't even bother to change the walls. Years ago, "The Sound of Music" could've been playing in that space.

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The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.

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I think anybody who was ever saddened by a movie theater closing would be able to understand this film [Aquarius].

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I just hope the film [Aquarius] doesn't feel overly nostalgic because too much nostalgia for me leads to depression. I think Clara is very pragmatic.

aquarius too-much thinking

When I talk to [my kids], I remember my father talking to me, so it's understandable that I would make a film like "Aquarius." A very good friend of mine saw the film, and she said it was clear that it had been made by someone who had just become a father.

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I have two kids now and through watching them, I keep having flas... by Sonia Braga

I have two kids now and through watching them, I keep having flashbacks to my own childhood.

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I'm 47 now, and I'm at that stage where I'm still young but I'm not young. I'm not old but I'm getting old, and I have stuff at home that reminds me of people and places.

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The rating [of "Aquarius"] was eventually brought down to 16 after the third appeal. Everything blew up after the second appeal because the press picked it up and spurred suspicions of persecution.

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Nobody who comes out of the movie [Aquarius] focuses on those [sexual] scenes, because they are not the heart of the film. They are a consequence of the story, but I don't remember hearing audiences talking about them afterward. They came out discussing themes of resistance, history and memory. They're talking about the beauty of the self and how it can become demolished.

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I think of a movie as a human body. You can feel the pump of the heart and the blood going through the veins when you watch that scene.

heart blood thinking

It's so sad to me [see the director's versions of films] because it shows how the filmmaker never got to make the film he had originally envisioned. You watch it and go, "Oh my god, he had to cut that scene! I can't believe it."

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I didn't like the script [of Aquarius], I loved it. by Sonia Braga

I didn't like the script [of Aquarius], I loved it.

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I think Pedro understands the universe, the same vision I have, a... by Sonia Braga

I think Pedro understands the universe, the same vision I have, about relationships anyhow.

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