The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil.
From Walter Salles
There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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 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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