Fernando Meirelles
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"Fernando Ferreira Meirelles" is a Brazilian people/Brazilian film director, Film producer/producer and screenwriter. His best known film is City of God (2002 film)/City of God, released in 2002 in Brazil and in 2003 in the United States of America/U.S. by Miramax Films, which received international critical acclaim. For his work in the film, he was eventually nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. He was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director in 2005 for The Constant Gardener (film)/The Constant Gardener, which garnered the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress to Rachel Weisz. He also directed the Blindness (film)/2008 adaptation of José Saramago's novel Blindness (novel)/Blindness, and the 2011 film 360 (film)/360.

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She impressed me because she knew even more than me about the character.

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She told me, 'It's just sex,' ... She flew to London to let me know how interested she was in the part. She knew so much more about Tessa than I did. I saw several other actresses, but she was the one who inspired me. It would be easy to play Tessa as a caricature, but there's a humanity in this character.

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But at the same time, they are very powerful and extremely profitable, because they produce these great pills. It is the second most profitable industry in the world. Just arms manufacturers -- who only kill people -- ironically are the only industry more profitable than drugs.

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This is the sequel. Geography makes them seem separate, but eventually the connections between them will become clear.

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That little village that's raided in the film, it's just lost in the desert. There's nothing there. We came in and turned it into a big operation, like an al-Qaida training camp in the middle of the desert.

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I did want to expose the pharmaceutical industry a bit, ... The industry promotes itself very well. I think the film helps people see it in a different way, not through its press releases.

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I got the job almost by accident.

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He does the right thing every day and lives by a code.

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When we first saw the locations we would be using, we decided to use a different visual approach to each part of the story.

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