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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."

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"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."

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Akshay Vasu

"Time is always standing still, we are only changing."

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Akshay Vasu

"But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing."

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Akshay Vasu

"The time is always right, just act."

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Akshay Vasu

"We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer."

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Akshay Vasu

"I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish."

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Akshay Vasu

"All times are treasureable; the times of prosperity, and times of adversity."

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Akshay Vasu

"Time is the most valuable currency so spend it wisely"

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Akshay Vasu

"In the beauty of the mornings we forget about the night; in the beauty of the night we forget about the mornings! When you meet the beauty, you drop anchor in the present time and all other times disappear from your mind!"

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Akshay Vasu

"I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me."

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Akshay Vasu

"Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them."

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

Development

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

Diversity

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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
"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
"But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later."

Beginning

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Walter Salles
"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

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Walter Salles
"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

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Walter Salles
"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

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

Living

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