30 Quotes by Walter Salles

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.

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

It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.

When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT.

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.

So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.

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.

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.

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