Sonia Quotes

It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.

Good people can do bad things, make bad decisions. It doesn't make them bad people.

My mom used to say, “You cannot experience what you cannot imagine ... yet you always experience what you do imagine.

There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested.

I have two kids now and through watching them, I keep having flashbacks to my own childhood.

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.

You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.

These 150-minute superhero films that Hollywood is making are so concerned with their length that each scene doesn't have the time it needs to make sense.

Ultimately, you just have to do what feels right for the film. It really helps when you have great collaborators like my editor, Eduardo Serrano, who kept telling me various scenes should be longer.

I didn't want to overstate anything, but at the same time, the scene expands on some of the themes in the film [ "Aquarius"].

When I wrote the script [of "Aquarius"], it seemed to hold people's interest.

The rating [of "Aquarius"] was eventually brought down to 16 after the third appeal. Everything blew up after the second appeal because the press picked it up and spurred suspicions of persecution.

["Aquarius"] it had a bit of a rocky arrival in cinemas because we were given the 18+ rating, which did not make any sense in terms of the Brazilian rating system for a film like this.

The film [Aquarius" ] is very, very successful. We had the highest per-screen average of last week's releases.

I think anybody who was ever saddened by a movie theater closing would be able to understand this film [Aquarius].

I just hope the film [Aquarius] doesn't feel overly nostalgic because too much nostalgia for me leads to depression. I think Clara is very pragmatic.

It's like I'm stuck in a time bubble. Memories keep coming back, and of course, memories are a huge part of literature and cinema, from "Stand by Me" to "Blade Runner."

I'm 47 now, and I'm at that stage where I'm still young but I'm not young. I'm not old but I'm getting old, and I have stuff at home that reminds me of people and places.

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.

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

And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.

When you breathe into fear it becomes adventure

I pray that my heart can continue to open and expand so I can fully receive love and not waste a drop of it!

In fully accepting your creative power, you honor and respect your soul and remind others to do the same.

None of us are too sensitive to live our purpose.

Life can dictate that we suffer physical restrictions and limitations, but no one has the ability to restrict or in any way demean our spirit unless we agree to it.

Small steps work—grandiose goals don’t.

To be in the dance bar you have to be young, good looking, able to dance, and comfortable talking to people.

You have the greatest chance of being happy when the voice you respond to is your own voice.

Don't count on others to hand your life to you.

The only person you will live your entire life with is yourself.

Don't accept that others know you better than you know yourself.

You marry at the level of your own psychological health.

As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.

people are strong despite suffering, not because of it.

In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second.