30 Quotes by Walter Salles

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

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

On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.

A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.

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

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

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

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.