Brazilian - Director | April 12, 1956 -
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
Walter Salles
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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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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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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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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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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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 did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.
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I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.
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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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