Do you think that there are people making films trying to get the same public of the novelas?
I agree more or less because it depends on what kind of films these people saw. For example, the other day I saw Os Matadores (The Killers ) by Beto Brant and there is nothing of soap opera in that film. However, if they based their opinion in a film like O Quatrilho (nominated for the Oscar of Best Foreign film in 1996) then I think their opinion is true. But I believe the Brazilian cinema is not only these two films; there are many more. Many with many tendencies, many styles, many films. The problem is that there are so many films that try to look like novelas in Brazil now, that today there are novelas that are better than films. Some of these films even have the same actors, the same story lines, the same production design and of course the same type of ending. These are the shy films, the cowards, films that don’t have the courage to go deeper, to explore new territories. The cinema has the obligation to go deeper, not TV. Because the TV set is in your living room and its images
