Film

“Es un filme crítico, pero hecho desde dentro, que pretende desatar una reflexión sobre problemas que tenemos en Cuba y que deben ser superados.”

““Cry Freetown” was just the wake-up call.”

“To make a film is easy, to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.”

“They are the ones that will tell you what the story is, not you.”

“E o neo-realismo fez o quê? É um cinema com o equipamento mínimo possível, feito na rua, com o dinheirinho lá do estúdio e com o próprio povo como ator.”

“السينما أعظم رسالة إعلام”

“Montage is the organization of cinematic material.”

“« Le cinéma est un art du présent. Ce n’est pas hier ou demain, c’est aujourd’hui ! »”

“I took it like a lesson from the old master, who taught me that an animal can move the audience even more strongly than any humans.”

“I can think of nothing else than this wretched art of cinema, which I hate and which, no doubt, I love at the same time.”

“I don't know why I film but I am inhabited by a whole people and I must bear witness to my epoch.”

“This movie is a challenge for me. To be honest, I don’t see it as my march into Hollywood.”

“A movie star gets a script and he says, how can I change this script to suit me. A movie actor gets a script and says, how can I change me to suit this script?”

“The only thing that is an appropriate response to what happened, the injustice of it, the waste of it, the tragedy of it, is to make the film.”

“I think the truest answer would be that I make films for the love of it.”

“It’s about examining the events of that particular day, and I believe it is being done in a brutally accurate way.”

“I have been, and still am the outstanding figure in the industry, I, mainly, have been made…the subject of attack by Australasian Films Ltd.”

“I believe in poetic cinema.”