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Walter Salles

"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."

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Donna Grant

"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."

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Donna Grant

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

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Donna Grant

"Looper is another great film."

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Donna Grant

"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."

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Donna Grant

"This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased."

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Donna Grant

"Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in."

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Donna Grant

"I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way."

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Donna Grant

"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."

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Donna Grant

"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."

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Donna Grant

"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."

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

Family

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

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

Diversity

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Walter Salles
"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."

Film

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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."

Development

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

Fiction

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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."

Act

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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."

Time

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Walter Salles
"I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised."

Nation

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Walter Salles
"I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films."

Living

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