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.

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.

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

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important

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.

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.