- [as a Portuguese film-maker] We film with lower budgets than almost any other European country. So, for instance, now [2012] because of the crisis in Portugal, everything is cut.. The only advantage of being poor is you can afford yourself a bit more freedom because you're not obliged to do a big box-office hit. But if you have the chance of doing a good, interesting film and you can afford the freedom not to deal with the pressure, you can take advantage of this.
- [on 'Tabu' his film which concerns a senile white woman and her African housekeeper] These characters - older women between sixty and eighty, that are lonely but no one gives a damn about - you don't get to see very much in cinema. So I wanted to have them on the film.
- Every day it's time to make a deal between what was your first desire, your first ideas, and then what's happening that day - what's happening in this location, what you see. This is the most enjoyable moment. Sometimes it also brings a kind of anguish, because you ask what the hell I'm doing here. You're not sure, it's not very solid, it's improvised in the moment.
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