Walter Salles Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.

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

We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself.

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.