Latest Sonia Braga Quotes from Interviews

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• Women at my age they are making love, they are feeling sensual, they flirt, they have boyfriends, they have a sexual life. They are just not being represented in the movies.

  Sonia Braga

  Flirting, Making Love, Feelings

  "Q&A: Sonia Braga plays the role of her life at 66". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 2, 2016.

• When was it that people decided as a society that your body is in one place and your sexuality in another place, something like a hat, or a coat, that when you leave home you hang it and when you come back home you say, "Ah! Let's wear my sexuality! I might wear it tonight"? It is something that belongs to your body.

  Sonia Braga

  Home, People, Tonight

  "Q&A: Sonia Braga plays the role of her life at 66". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 2, 2016.

• Today we find many actors, they are Latin, they are Hispanic, they are living in the Unites States, they are American, but very rarely you find them in a lead role.

  Sonia Braga

  Latin, Roles, Actors

  "Q&A: Sonia Braga plays the role of her life at 66". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 2, 2016.

• To be naked or even making love in a scene to me is very important if this is a movie about a couple or sensuality. It's a sort of moralism to think that this shouldn't be seen in the film.

  Sonia Braga

  Couple, Thinking, Making Love

  "Q&A: Sonia Braga plays the role of her life at 66". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 2, 2016.

• A reporter told me it is very rare to see a woman of my age in the movies. Right! In the movies! But they have been for so long in very serious and important positions in life: scientists, prime ministers, candidates to be the president.

  Sonia Braga

  Long, Important, Age

  "Q&A: Sonia Braga plays the role of her life at 66". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 2, 2016.

• I'm scared of rehearsals, I'm scared of doing all this because I don't feel like I'm an actress.

  Sonia Braga

  Rehearsal, Actresses, Scared

  "Q&A: Sonia Braga plays the role of her life at 66". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 2, 2016.

• I like visual arts, and what I love doing is participating in the making of it.

  Sonia Braga

  Art, Visuals, Visual Art

  "Q&A: Sonia Braga plays the role of her life at 66". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 2, 2016.

• The way I see it, I belong to the film as any other department.

  Sonia Braga

  Way, Film, Department

  "Q&A: Sonia Braga plays the role of her life at 66". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 2, 2016.

• We did receive some questions about the film's [Aquarius] sexuality in Cannes, but they came from the press rather than audiences.

  Sonia Braga

  Aquarius, Film, Sexuality

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• Nobody who comes out of the movie [Aquarius] focuses on those [sexual] scenes, because they are not the heart of the film. They are a consequence of the story, but I don't remember hearing audiences talking about them afterward. They came out discussing themes of resistance, history and memory. They're talking about the beauty of the self and how it can become demolished.

  Sonia Braga

  Memories, Heart, Self

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• I didn't like the script [of Aquarius], I loved it.

  Sonia Braga

  Aquarius, Scripts

• It's so sad to me [see the director's versions of films] because it shows how the filmmaker never got to make the film he had originally envisioned. You watch it and go, "Oh my god, he had to cut that scene! I can't believe it."

  Sonia Braga

  Believe, Cutting, Directors

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• I think of a movie as a human body. You can feel the pump of the heart and the blood going through the veins when you watch that scene.

  Sonia Braga

  Heart, Thinking, Blood

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• I live in New York, and Clara lives in Recife. The character is Brazilian, and as I read the script, I felt like Kleber [Mendonca] had been spying on me in order to create this role [in Aquarius]. Clara and I have different backgrounds. I come from an intuitive world, and she's an academic, but when we got together, we really became one. There are many times when I'm watching the film where Clara will say something, and I will find myself agreeing with her. It was the first time that I had this weird sensation that the character I played is so me, but yet it's so her.

  Sonia Braga

  New York, Character, Aquarius

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• It always surprises me when I see the director's versions of films released separately, long after the film's theatrical run.

  Sonia Braga

  Running, Long, Directors

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• It's a great role for any age. Any actress wishes they would find a screenplay that means as much to them as "Aquarius" meant to me, as a person and a citizen.

  Sonia Braga

  Mean, Aquarius, Wish

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• When I saw that scene [in ocean from the Aquarius] for the first time, it blew me away. It caused me to reflect on my age, my history and all that I've been through in Brazil. Having been away from Brazil for so long, while not speaking in my own tongue, when I saw that image, I felt like I was taking my first deep breath after nearly suffocating to death. It was like the plastic had been removed from my head. Even if this breath turned out to be my last, at least I got to have this one moment of release. At least I got this one chance.

  Sonia Braga

  Ocean, Aquarius, Long

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• Everybody else is going to react differently to the film [Aquarius], but what I love about it is that both men and women are going to react to it because they will find themselves represented.

  Sonia Braga

  Men, Aquarius, Film

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• I'm not saying that we need more stories about people of a certain age, we just need more great stories about people.

  Sonia Braga

  People, Age, Needs

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• It makes sense that somebody told you that you made the film from your perspective as a father.

  Sonia Braga

  Father, Perspective, Film

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• I just realized the other day that Clara [in Aquarius] and I are now going to be apart year by year. She's still 65, and I'm 66 now. When you make a movie, it preserves you at a certain age, and it's so wonderful that Clara has preserved me at 65. People are talking about her age in a way that is positive and respectful, which is so wonderful.

  Sonia Braga

  Talking, Years, Aquarius

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• I keep boxes filled with recuerdos - little memories that are in the form of pictures and events that I've written down. It's funny that I chose to write them in Spanish rather than English or Portuguese.

  Sonia Braga

  Memories, Writing, Events

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• The movie [Aquarius] is about love, ultimately, and it was made with love. There were a lot of parents in the crew, and they were the best crew I had ever worked with. Everybody knew the construction of each scene, and were completely invested in every shooting day.

  Sonia Braga

  Aquarius, Parent, Shooting

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• I think the relationship [in Aquarius] with her nephew shows that she's not nostalgic. She just wants to preserve what is important to her - her records, her books, even some furniture. She doesn't want to leave that house because it is her home. That is where her kids were born. After moving so much in my life, I was touched by Clara's need to stay in that apartment. I love her life, and that may be why I connected to her so strongly. We are the most alike when we are fighting for our rights.

  Sonia Braga

  Moving, Book, Kids

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• In Brazil, there is a fear and a denial of our past. Downtown Rio used to display the history of colonialism in Brazil. They had beautiful buildings and theaters, and there was a bakery that was threatened to be demolished, but people insisted against it. They laid down in front of it and said, "You're going to have to go over my body to destroy it." It frustrates me when I see people on Facebook posing in front of old buildings while on vacation, because they could've posed in front of equally beautiful buildings at home in Rio.

  Sonia Braga

  Beautiful, Home, Past

  Source: www.rogerebert.com