Walter Moreira Salles, Jr. (born 12 April 1956) is a Brazilian filmmaker and film producer of international prominence. Read full biography of Walter Salles →
My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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 Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in 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... →
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... →
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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... →
I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
Walter Moreira Salles, Jr. (born 12 April 1956) is a Brazilian filmmaker and film producer of international prominence.