The necessity to conceptualise has to co... by Walter Salles

Will Freedom Film Development

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

Other quotes by Walter Salles

Experience Want

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.

- Walter Salles

America

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

Present America

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

- Walter Salles

Brazil Faces

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

- Walter Salles

Freedom Time

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

Father

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

- Walter Salles

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