The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil.

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

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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

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My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.

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It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.

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And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.

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We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself.

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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.

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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.

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The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them.

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