Walter Moreira Salles Jr. Quotes

• 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 making it that I didn’t want to do anything that could reflect it.

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• A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

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• 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 vice versa.

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• 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 can improvise later.

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• And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we’re echoing what’s been done way in the past.

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• 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 are not yet crystallised.

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

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• I’m much more interested in living specific experiences in films.

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

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

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• I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.

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

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• That’s why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think.

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

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• 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 process will allow you much more freedom as you go along.

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• 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 much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.

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

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

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• The films that I’ve done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.

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

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Walter Moreira Salles Jr. (26)

Birth:	12th April, 1956
Nationality:	Brazilian
Profession:	Director, Editor, Producer

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