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Meirelles: If you do a film with a high budget, people want to control it. Marketing people tell you what to do, and where to cut, so they can get their money back. I am more interested in doing smaller films that I can control.
Meirelles: This is the part that I like most, in the process, is to edit and try to find the story. Sometimes you think you have a film, and then you change something and it becomes different. It's a wonderful job. Because it surprises you.
Meirelles: (About The Consta... (more Fernando Meirelles quotes)
As of 2006, Meirelles is rumored to be in the running to direct yet another espionage film, a biopic about notorious international terrorist Carlos the Jackal. Spanish actor
City of God was released in 2002 and received an American release in 2003 by Miramax Films.
He was nominated for an Academy Award for Directing in 2004 for City of God. He lost to... (more Fernando Meirelles trivia)