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Walter Salles Quotes

Brazilian - Director | April 12, 1956 -

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

Life Father Culture Country Part

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

Doing Television Brazil Documentaries

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.

Responsibility Feel Help See Brazil

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

Father Search Country Central Also

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

Young Brazil Very

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.

Think Better You Windows Understand

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.

Freedom Time Direction Done Evolve

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.

Freedom Beginning Process You Early

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 to try and solve them.

Problems Feel You Become Try Need

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

Brazil Argentina Faces Different

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

America Film Been Latin America

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

Present America Still Latin America

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