VIENNALE: Do you think that life is getting faster and faster these days?

PEDRO COSTA: There is an impression of things, I don't know if it's the reality. One of the things I like about the work with Vanda in this film, is that it's a very slow thing, nothing moves. For me it's still very quick. If you look closely, you can see the walls move. Sometimes the colours change, light changes and that's the speed of the sun because I don't use artificial light. You see the speed of the planet, the universe, the sun turning. My friend Jacques Rivette says, when you shoot a film you're going along with the planet. The film is rolling like the earth is rolling. You should be in the same speed. With some filmmakers I like, you have that impression that they are in the same speed. A film like Vanda, which is a very long film, 3 hours, I felt it should be 3 hours because if it was only 10 minutes or half an hour people wouldn't see it the way I wanted them to see it. Some things are very slow today. You go very fast in a plane or a train but you go very slowly in your head. I think people used to be faster in a way that they went with the world, with the movement. Today, it's fake movements, it's artificial things, like drugs. You want to be in a state of going very slow or very fast but not your natural thing. You want to forget your situation, you don't want to talk to a person, to the world. So you put yourself in very transformed states. For me, it's not Vanda who is drugged, it's the world. Sometimes I go to the cinema and I really don't understand what's happening on the screen. When the camera moves around and goes very fast, I don't see anything. Probably it's to give an impression of the speed of life today but I think you should do this in another way.