Walter Salles Quotes
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.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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I'm not downplaying my age - because humankind is such that people run away from their age. Especially women. Guys pretend not to care, but they do. Age is not a good thing to most human beings. But, being an alien, I embrace it.
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There's a gude time coming.
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You can have a lot of fun in a New York minute.But there's some things you can't do inside those city limits.Ain't no closing time, ain't no cover charge.Just country boys and girls gettin' down on the farm.
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I work out all the time, but because it's good for my mental state.
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How does anybody change from the time that they're 18 till they're 25? Everything kind of changes. You see the world much differently, and you get your priorities in order a little bit more.
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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.
