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Walter Salles

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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.


— Walter Salles


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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.


— Walter Salles


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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.


— Walter Salles


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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.


— Walter Salles


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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.


— Walter Salles


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


— Walter Salles


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


— Walter Salles


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I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.


— Walter Salles


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I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.


— Walter Salles


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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.


— Walter Salles


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In 2008 Salles wrote and directed the film Linha de Passe also with Daniela Thomas. He is the son of Elizinha Goncalves and Walter Moreira Salles a Brazilian banker and ambassador and the brother of João Moreira Salles also a filmmaker. In 2006 Salles wrote and directed a segment in the French film Paris je t'aime (French for "Paris I love you") with Daniela Thomas.

(born April 12 1956) is a Brazilian filmmaker and film producer of international prominence.

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