Walter Salles Quotes

My advice to American filmmakers is to marry a European. I'm not kidding. Otherwise they don't qualify for international co-production treaties.

I'm happy to see the United States and China cooperating more and more with movies. The entertainment industry in China is developing very fast. I hope there can be a bridge for actors to work in both places.

It's a big battle to bring quality stuff into theaters across America, for sure.

Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.

It is a pleasure to cooperate with Egyptian cinema.

Brazil must resume and deepen Latin American integration.

Films will break barriers - and good films will travel all over India.

After Victor Paz's government, I was still in politics, but I personally spent a lot of time consulting and working with Argentina, with Peru, and in Brazil.

A lot of actors want to do a solo release, but not many people go and watch it. The more you work with different actors and producers, the more your work reaches people.

You've got the movie, distribution, and marketing. All are equally important, so educate yourself on how to do the best you can at each of them.

Basically, the big studios and companies distributing your movie just take a big cut of profit for making posters.

Primarily, a festival is a platform to sell films that are not meant for the mainstream audience. Cultural exchange is also important aspect of a film festival.

The Punjabi industry lacks a lot in terms of good production houses and actors.

My place is cemented in Malayalam films. Malayalam is not my language and it felt alien to me. But for them, I am someone from Karnataka who could deliver.

After doing the Bengali 'Antar Mahal,' I felt I should work with all Indian languages.

When I was 20 years old, my uncle was an arthouse distributor, and he would take me to Cannes every year to work as a film scout.

Language doesn't seem to be a barrier for me to do films in the south.

I've always said that we must do local cinema but not lose sight of national appeal. That's the way New Theatres, L V Prasad, Gemini Studios operated.

The way we structure our deals is to work closely with the director. It is imperative to work with a studio because the way the film is marketed is crucial.

Telugu and Tamil industries keenly watch Malayalam movies and are appreciative of the content, be it 'Ustad Hotel,' 'Premam' or 'Bangalore Days.' They've also been listening to our music. That's how I was approached for Telugu films.

I think Warner Bros. are probably some of the best people in marketing films in the world.

The film business is just one of our verticals. We have wanted for some time to make inroads into the English language market, because I think that over time such films can cross over into the international market.

Overall, I feel that southern cinema, in itself, has taken over the film industry with its content, stories and screenplay.

Multiplex cinema culture has created a level-playing field for directors where small budget movies are able to break even, even make profit.

'Baahubali' has definitely increased hopes for a lot of regional filmmakers. After all, what I have learnt is that it only takes one 'Baahubali' to enter into the audience's hearts and cross the boundaries.