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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
Walter Salles
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I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.
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My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
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So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.
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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.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.
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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.
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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.
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The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.
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When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT.
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