Quotes

Brazil needs an inventive and sophisticated genre cinema. Horror, science fiction, fantasy and action films are basics in any great country with a popular cinema, and in Brazil this is rarely remembered.

Beyond the Grave (2010) is very close to an art-house horror film. There is a very personal and mythological universe behind this. This is not only a Brazilian take on the zombie genre, this is shaping into something really unexpected, even to us.

[on Beyond the Grave (2010)] The script is a mix of everything I love about cinema and fantasy. It's a movie made with passion, heart and, a la Alejandro Jodorowsky, balls.

[about Beyond the Grave (2010) and The Soul Detective (2009)] "Beyond the Grave (2010) is a popular movie with experimental echoes. I turned that around and made an experimental movie with popular echoes, resulting in The Soul Detective (2009). I was interested in questions of rhythm, internal movement and the search of new soundscapes.

[about his interview with David Lynch for The Soul Detective (2009)] The interview was not made to be a piece of cinema vérité, but as a sound and vision experiment, to see how an opinion can become a fiction completely different from its original intent.