In general I'm more attached to a cinema that tries not to replicate the real world and life..

I have the opportunity to make my films and I think that's a luxury. I don't have any problems by filming things that can have a connection with left….

It's true that mostly in the last years, from the moment when Portugal was subjected to this policy of austerity, imposed by Europe, that I think man….

I would not like to have a homogeneous type of film. I wanted to go to many different kinds of ways of making cinema and telling stories and watching….

Europeans used to be proud to be the advanced form of democracy. Now they're definitely a little bit ashamed because we are seeing that finally, the ….

I think that I prefer to shoot characters even if they are not good people. I don't think that cinema is a place where you can do sentences like in a….

You know, some people say that Cannes is the worst place in the world to see cinema. It's a paradox. They have the new films , lots of interesting fi….

I don't believe that people are robots. I think you should try to get personal, try to put yourself in the film in a deep way, and try to give that t….

They say films they are made by computers. There are computer programs to see statistically what people are more interested in, and they practice com….

My job is just to make the films and then I don't have any strategy..

I would not describe myself as a left-wing filmmaker. I don't think this is the first thing that would pop into my mind when talking about my work..

I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film..