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

When you actually see it, it is quite strong, but there's nothing really pornographic about it. They are high-impact yet very short moments of sexuality, which makes it very confusing for the censors. If censors were merely human beings who watch a film ["Aquarius"] and come out with a conclusion about what they saw, then there wouldn't be a problem.

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 keep boxes filled with recuerdos - little memories that are in the form of pictures and events that I've written down. It's funny that I chose to write them in Spanish rather than English or Portuguese.

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

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

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