“Because when you do a film, it’s generally five, six or seven weeks at the most. We had the ambition to do it for a year and a half, and that changes a lot of things and we were not in the same state of mind. When you spend a year and half with the film, you are just there and life is much more together. You have lots of other things. You have people who are born, people who die and seasons change. So the film becomes, really, almost organic. You don’t really think about the film. Or you think about the film and life at the same time. So it’s good. It’s because it brings down the importance of cinema. The balance is more correct, I think, in what you live, that a film should not be the main thing in your life. Perhaps it’s one of the things. It’s your work. It’s like the guy in the office, or the guy who makes food, or the guy who makes shoes. They do it everyday, from 9-7. It should be the same thing. This idea that you’re making film, that you’re making art, is a special moment or aspect, or a thing for this special kind of people, was never for me. It’s like the idea of trying to make it all your life, because I like it, it’s what I chose, and make it day to day, everyday. And with this small budget crew and in this place where people are very generous. We can do it on a very daily basis. We’re not doing art. Even if the actor, the image you see is something mystic or beautiful or good.”
-Pedro Costa on In Vanda’s Room (Criterion Collection Trailer:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMtsdwWSjyk )
