"So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens."

Ambition, Brazil, Film, First, Help

46

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens."

Exlpore more Ambition quotes

"Why settle for a lesser vision? When you are destiny for greatness!"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Ambition, Vision, Destiny, Greatness

"You can rise to greater heights with determined spirit and hope."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Ambition, Spirit, Hope, Success

"Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

Ambition, Risk, Writing, Creativity

"Ambition is greed without makeup."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Ambition, Greed, Critique, Motivational

"Stay with your passion but have a philosophy that is beyond your strength so that you can have a legacy, even a legacy that will outlast you."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Ambition, Passion, Philosophy, Legacy, Strength

"Set goals to create a clear sense of purpose and direction."

Susan C. Young, American Author

Ambition, Goal, Truth, Power, Focus

"There's two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody. Or die trying."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

Ambition, Fame, Writing, Poetry

"Status: the perpetual carrot that entices us from the front and prods us in the back."

Fennel Hudson, British Author

Ambition, Motivational, Status, Drive

"Increase must become your natural desire."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Ambition, Increase, Desire, Growth

"It is the possibility of the dream, which quickens my spirit to take action."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Ambition, Dream, Action, Possibility, Motivation

Explore more quotes by 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."

Literature

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

Family

"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

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

Film

"That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think."

Fiction

"It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end."

Support

"So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil."

Desire

"Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa."

Collaboration

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

Living

"My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture."

Life