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.

Sônia Braga reacted in a beautiful way to the draft I sent her, so we just made the film ["Aquarius"] as I had written it. Emilie [Lesclaux], my wife and producer, told me, "This is not a two-hour film. This is going to be longer." And I said, "Well, let's try and make it work, whatever length it is."

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.

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

When was it that people decided as a society that your body is in one place and your sexuality in another place, something like a hat, or a coat, that when you leave home you hang it and when you come back home you say, "Ah! Let's wear my sexuality! I might wear it tonight"? It is something that belongs to your body.