Walter Salles

So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil.

— Walter Salles

No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.

— Walter Salles

The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were…

— Walter Salles

We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I…

— Walter Salles

I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I…

— Walter Salles

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

— Walter Salles

But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process,…

— Walter Salles

Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through…

— Walter Salles

When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT.

— Walter Salles

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.

— Walter Salles

Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed…

— Walter Salles

I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.

— Walter Salles

A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

— Walter Salles

It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.

— Walter Salles

The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the…

— Walter Salles

On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.

— Walter Salles

So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are…

— Walter Salles

I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.

— Walter Salles

I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.

— Walter Salles

So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.

— Walter Salles

The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.

— Walter Salles

That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from,…

— Walter Salles

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

— Walter Salles

The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil.

— Walter Salles

The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the…

— Walter Salles