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Up Until Then, Whenever Anyone Had Mentioned The Possibility Of Making A Film Adaptation, My Answer Had Always Been, ‘no, I’m Not Interested.’ I Believe That Each Reader Creates His Own Film Inside His Head, Gives Faces To The Characters, Constructs Every Scene, Hears The Voices, Smells The Smells. And That Is Why, Whenever A Reader Goes To See A Film Based On A Novel That He Likes, He Leaves Feeling Disappointed, Saying: ‘the Book Is So Much Better Than The Film.

Other People Think Exactly The Opposite: They Surrender Themselves Without A Second Thought, Hoping To Find In Passion The Solutions To All Their Problems. They Make The Other Person Responsible For Their Happiness And Blame Them For Their Possible Unhappiness. They Are Either Euphoric Because Something Marvelous Has Happened Or Depressed Because Something Unexpected Has Just Ruined Everything.

After Weeks On The Road, Listening To A Language You Don’t Understand, Using A Currency Whose Value You Don’t Comprehend, Walking Down Streets You’ve Never Walked Down Before, You Discover That Your Old “i,” Along With Everything You Ever Learned, Is Absolutely No Use At All In The Face Of Those New Challenges, And You Begin To Realize That Buried Deep In Your Unconscious Mind There Is Someone Much More Interesting And Adventurous And More Open To The World And To New Experiences.

If You Conquer Yourself, Then You Conquer The World

I Lived In A Dictatorship In Brazil, And I Was Arrested Three Times. I Felt In My Flesh What It Is To Live Under Such A Regime And Experience Deprivation Of Freedom.