Trivia

He loves HQs and soccer.

Chose to not tell Globo TV executives that Kubanacan (2003) was actually a science fiction series at first. Brazilian networks were still too wary of genre telenovelas at the time, as well as the viewers themselves.

Is a comic book fan and incorporated several of such elements into his TV dramas. For instance, Kubanacan (2003) is a sci-fi telenovela, while Sins... (2013) has a special episode with a "What If...?" scenario, similar to alternate reality stories published by Marvel and DC Comics.