Salles Quotes

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

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. - Walter Salles

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present. - Walter Salles

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

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

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. - Walter Salles

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. - Walter Salles

So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil. - Walter Salles