Inspirational Roots Quotes

I started out in gospel music. A lot of people don't know that I started out in gospel music, and I've never lost sight of it.

All of my work stems from the simplest of ideas that go back to the earliest civilizations: making clothing from one piece of cloth. It is my touchstone.

I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white reproductions on miserable paper. That was, for many years, what art was for me. But from those miserable black-and-white reproductions, I got something, something unmistakable.

My mom used to play a lot of music around the house, and I think that's where I get my inspiration from.

It all started with music for me. Everything still does.

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

I think that every artist dreams of renewing the forms which came before, but I think very few can be considered to have achieved that. We are all dwarves standing upon the shoulders of the giants who preceded us, and I think we must never forget that. After all, even iconoclasts only exist with respect to that which they destroy.

My dad passed when I was 6. I found out when I was about 21 that my dad always said acting would be the making of me. Where he got that from, I have no idea.