Kleber Mendonca Filho quotes

Basically you can do anything in a film. I could have place a spaceship in the middle of a street. You can do anything, and I love to talk about this because is so organic to the process.
-- Kleber Mendonca Filho

#Film #Middle #Process

When you write a scene where somebody is afraid of something you instantly go to decades of genre cinema: horror, suspense, and thrillers. Those are very cinematic genres, when you shoot a close-up of someone and you can see fear in the person's face, or anticipation, or some kind of anxiety, it's a very cinematic image.
-- Kleber Mendonca Filho

#Writing #Anxiety #Faces

I think it modern society as a whole, but definitively in Brazil, spaces are so well divided and there are so many barriers, and so many divisions, so many lines and so many borderlines, basically telling you that you should be here but not here. This is my space and this is your space, and this is expressed very dramatically in architecture, we have a very kind of aggressive, almost medieval concept for architecture, which is basically keeping people out. So you get high walls, fences, and electric fences, and divisions like that.
-- Kleber Mendonca Filho

#Wall #Thinking #Space

One good thing about a good book or a good film, or maybe even a song, I'm not a musician but I love to listen to music, is the range that each piece is able to give you. Like 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen, 1975, that song is so epic. It goes in so many different places, it's and opera and it is heavy metal, and it's so crazy as it goes every which way. I kind of like films like that.
-- Kleber Mendonca Filho

#Song #Queens #Crazy

I've seen a lot of Brazilian films and most times I kind of react negatively, because of the way I think they portray places they don't really know or care about. This is something that I specifically tried to avoid in my film.
-- Kleber Mendonca Filho

#Thinking #Care #Way

Sometimes you are working and you feel like walking out into the terrace, stretching, looking out and feeling the night air on your face.
-- Kleber Mendonca Filho

#Night #Air #Feelings

A film has its own life and takes its own time.

Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.

Oh, I'm sorry," Chubs said, 'apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue.

I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.

If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.

The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

The democratic process on which this nation was founded should not be restricted to the political process, but should be applied to the industrial operation as well.