I think the film [Aquarius] comes from that original feeling I had 18 years ago, when I was in a São Paulo supermarket. I was in line to pay for something, and when I looked up, I saw the little windows of a projection booth. That's when I realized the supermarket used to be a movie theater. They didn't even bother to change the walls. Years ago, "The Sound of Music" could've been playing in that space.

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

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

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.

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

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

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