47 Quotes by Sonia Braga

It makes sense that somebody told you that you made the film from your perspective as a father.

I just realized the other day that Clara [in Aquarius] and I are now going to be apart year by year. She's still 65, and I'm 66 now. When you make a movie, it preserves you at a certain age, and it's so wonderful that Clara has preserved me at 65. People are talking about her age in a way that is positive and respectful, which is so wonderful.

I'm not saying that we need more stories about people of a certain age, we just need more great stories about people.

Everybody else is going to react differently to the film [Aquarius], but what I love about it is that both men and women are going to react to it because they will find themselves represented.

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.

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

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.

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."

It always surprises me when I see the director's versions of films released separately, long after the film's theatrical run.