Walter Salles
Walter Salles
Walter Moreira Salles, Jr.is a Brazilian filmmaker and film producer of international prominence...
NationalityBrazilian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth12 April 1956
CountryBrazil
diaries experience knew motorcycle
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.
When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT.
constant gotten robert
It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.
vital
The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
allow defining early freedom necessity
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.
complete direction evolve films freedom mostly original stories
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.
So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil.
station
So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.
portuguese
I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.
brazil influenced
And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.
A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
believer
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
country diplomat life
My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil.