Sonia Braga Quotes

I love directing. It's where my heart is, and it's the way my mind works.

I wrote 'Marvels,' which was about a guy who had two daughters, and I wrote 'Astro City Volume 2 #1,' which was about a guy who had two daughters. In both cases, about a year and a half or two years apart. And then after that, I had two daughters, about a year and a half or two years apart.

I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I think it would be interesting to find one person that really fascinated me or maybe a band and travel with them, but I don't think I could do it like I used to do it.

I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

It absolutely helped - to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts,' I had to see the whole story from his point of view. All of a sudden I understood more of what my own father must be going through - the fear, the frustration, the anger... the hope that he'll leave a legacy.

Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

I've never read one book about my father.

No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.

As a director, your expectation and reality don't always match up, and I think that that's... I think it's a little jarring.

I think my passion for cinema really started when I was on the set of 'Mud' and my third film 'Joe.' That's when I really started to fall in love with the art of filmmaking.

That's what interests me about film: directing.

You can be technically strong, and focus all your efforts on elements like casting, music, cinematography and sets, but they are all just add ons. End of the day, filmmaking is really about how well you tell a story.

Live life before making movies, because you cannot make films about life, without having lived one.

My father was a TV scriptwriter. He would perform his dialogue out loud, while my mum transcribed it at the typewriter. So I grew up thinking that plucking characters out of the air was an extremely normal way to behave.

My dad's a filmmaker, and my mom's an actress. She was the original understudy, actually, for Harper in 'Angels in America' and did the show for about several months while she was pregnant with my older brother. And so I grew up obsessed with film and filmmaking.

I spoke to my father about making a documentary on him. I have been seriously contemplating that.

I love the team aspect of filmmaking.

I wanted to understand the whole medium and that is when I decided to do television. Once I thought that, I was confident about making a film.

When my son came into my life, my priorities changed, because I wanted to have the relationship with him, that I didn't have with my father.

We are all children until our fathers die.

I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film.

Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue.

I don't know my biological father. That could have had a huge impact on my life had it not been for the fact that my dad married my mom when I was one and raised me as his own.