Walter Salles Quotes

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• A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
• Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and…
• But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you…
• I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.
• I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
• I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.
• My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
• No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
• So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and…
• So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.
• So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil.
• The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the…
• The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act…
• The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil.
• The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
• There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
• Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of…
• And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.
• I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things…
• I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.

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