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