I feel that joy is the basic emotion of life and of human beings. It's what supports everything. We are here to be happy. We are to enjoy "alegria."

- Alex Abreu

"Airgela" is "Alegria" backwards and "Alegria" means "Joy" or "Happiness." This is a fundamental word in this film. It's very important. Symbolically…

- Alex Abreu

At the end of the process we called a market research company to find out whom the film was for or what was the target audience. We didn't have a lot…

- Alex Abreu

They didn't need to be specifically South American or Latin American. Instead we discovered we were talking about human beings in general. We realize…

- Alex Abreu

I have the feeling that I didn't make it by myself, but that I was conducted by feelings that were completely different from those in my previous wor…

- Alex Abreu

Making a film from the point of view of a young boy's eyes opened the door to another universe with lots of freedom and to explore a new dimension. T…

- Alex Abreu

I always told my team, "You have to believe that you are not in front of a computer, but that your canvas is a piece of paper. You have to believe th…

- Alex Abreu

The entire time I was following the feelings experienced by children, so the feeling of not understanding what adults say was very important to put t…

- Alex Abreu

We were in another planet and we were reaching for something closer to a fable. It was something fabulous. I started looking at the film as if it hap…

- Alex Abreu