Sonia Braga Quotes

It's a great role for any age. Any actress wishes they would find a screenplay that means as much to them as "Aquarius" meant to me, as a person and a citizen.

The only thing I know is that we came from the stars, and that we have the same material as the stars. That's all that I know. Everything else I don't know.

I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.

We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.

It's like I'm stuck in a time bubble. Memories keep coming back, and of course, memories are a huge part of literature and cinema, from "Stand by Me" to "Blade Runner."

I didn't want to overstate anything, but at the same time, the scene expands on some of the themes in the film [ "Aquarius"].

When I wrote the script [of "Aquarius"], it seemed to hold people's interest.

The rating [of "Aquarius"] was eventually brought down to 16 after the third appeal. Everything blew up after the second appeal because the press picked it up and spurred suspicions of persecution.

["Aquarius"] it had a bit of a rocky arrival in cinemas because we were given the 18+ rating, which did not make any sense in terms of the Brazilian rating system for a film like this.

The film [Aquarius" ] is very, very successful. We had the highest per-screen average of last week's releases.

I think anybody who was ever saddened by a movie theater closing would be able to understand this film [Aquarius].

I just hope the film [Aquarius] doesn't feel overly nostalgic because too much nostalgia for me leads to depression. I think Clara is very pragmatic.

The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.

I'm 47 now, and I'm at that stage where I'm still young but I'm not young. I'm not old but I'm getting old, and I have stuff at home that reminds me of people and places.

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.

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

And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

Ultimately, you just have to do what feels right for the film. It really helps when you have great collaborators like my editor, Eduardo Serrano, who kept telling me various scenes should be longer.

These 150-minute superhero films that Hollywood is making are so concerned with their length that each scene doesn't have the time it needs to make sense.

We did receive some questions about the film's [Aquarius] sexuality in Cannes, but they came from the press rather than audiences.

The way I see it, I belong to the film as any other department.

I like visual arts, and what I love doing is participating in the making of it.

I'm scared of rehearsals, I'm scared of doing all this because I don't feel like I'm an actress.

Today we find many actors, they are Latin, they are Hispanic, they are living in the Unites States, they are American, but very rarely you find them in a lead role.

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

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

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

Women at my age they are making love, they are feeling sensual, they flirt, they have boyfriends, they have a sexual life. They are just not being represented in the movies.

You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor.

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.

I have two kids now and through watching them, I keep having flashbacks to my own childhood.