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.
From Walter Salles
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.
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.
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.
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.
I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.
I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.
It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.
No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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