#tin

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

— Walter Salles

#been #communities #film #institute #latin

The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why we can't we have good films that happen to have black people, or Asian, or Latino, or any other minority group in them? ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#asian #black #film #films #good

Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#been #choice #doing #ever #festivals

Normally, we see characters that have God complexes. How interesting, I thought, it would be to capitalize on that. And say, OK, well fine, you have a God complex, well this person has a Satan complex. And the doctor chooses to treat him scientifically. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#characters #chooses #complex #complexes #doctor

So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#around #being #company #day #difference

Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your biggest concern is what are you going to be eating. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#away #biggest #concern #eating #film

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

#american #american films #brazil #create #distributed

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

— Walter Salles

#come #continent #i #part #portuguese

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. ↗

— Walter Salles

#aspect #aware #become #continent #feel

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

— Walter Salles

#brazil #completely #different #faces