And as a director, you constantly try to solve problems, so you have to focus on that. You take away all the other parts. Of course, when the shot finishes, you remember that you have Robert De Niro in front… — Rodrigo Cortes Copy Share Image
If you believe in God, that's a belief. If you are an atheist, it's a belief too, because you cannot prove that God does… — Rodrigo Cortes Copy Share Image
Once I do something, I need to be obsessed - or maybe I don't need to be obsessed, but I get obsessed because that's just the way my brain works - but I need to pay a lot of attention to detail. Because everything counts to me once I do something, even if it's a movie that nobody cares about.… — Rodrigo Cortes Copy Share
Something that I wanted to do through the film is try to explore the roots of belief, because everything has to do with beliefs. When I studied the side of the rationalists and the skeptics, and the side of the believers and so-called psychics, I found out that both of them, no matter what they claim to do, behave in… — Rodrigo Cortes Copy Share
Debunking certain things is important, first because you question things, which is always healthy, and second because there's a part that has to do… — Rodrigo Cortes Copy Share Image
There are a couple of things that are, in the present, floating in front of my face, and once one of them gets enough… — Rodrigo Cortes Copy Share Image
Even when you expose something, when you have a true believer, that person rejects that proof; he thinks it's just a set-up. We believe… — Rodrigo Cortes Copy Share Image
And as a director, you constantly try to solve problems, so you have to focus on that. You take away all the other parts.… — Rodrigo Cortes Copy Share Image
I love films that don't end when they end, that go on in your head a couple of days later. — Rodrigo Cortes Copy Share Image
There are many films I would happily spend two hours with, not so many I would spend two years with. I need to be… — Rodrigo Cortes Copy Share Image
I think being self-taught is the only way of really learning things, because you have to question everybody. You don't simply absorb axioms or… — Rodrigo Cortes Copy Share Image
