[on
9 Canções (2004)] I wanted to make a film about something I really believe in, which is
to show sex in a very positive light, as a very important piece of
everyday life and a very important piece of a relationship, whether
it's successful or unsuccessful. What I find in films I see is that sex
is always a turning point in action, someone's cheating on someone, or
someone dies. It's always the kids having sex in horror films that die.
And I didn't like that. And in the sexually explicit films I've seen
like
O Império dos Sentidos (1976) [the Japanese classic in which the heroine cuts off
her partner's penis], they're crazy, people don't do that, it's not
normal!
