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

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

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.

'On the Road' is a seminal book that gave voice to a whole generation -- capturing its hunger for experience, unwillingness to accept imposed truths and dissatisfaction with the status quo. It is as modern today as it was four decades ago.