Walter Salles Quotes

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Nobody wants to watch perfection.

I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.

I'm not perfect; I've never professed to be, and I don't want to be. How much fun is that?

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

In my mind, everything is too sanitised on television - what is wrong with things going wrong?

I'm against the ways of the world where people feel like they need to always make things too perfect.

It's really amazing to see what you imagined brought to screen.

Sometimes choosing to leave a mistake on a track is way cooler than going back and nailing it.

I like a performance, a live performance, so I like little mistakes because that's what makes perfect - the mistakes.

We've been expected to be perfect but we aren't. We're still human.

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.

I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect.

I do think imperfection's underrated.

The reason I stopped modeling was because I wasn't pleased with trying to portray something that is impossible to reach. Even when I do photo shoots now for films, I'm just not interested in trying to look my best all the time anymore. That pursuit of an impossible perfection seems ridiculous to me now. I'd rather show my vulnerabilities or my doubts than try to be something that no one is.

Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.

They say real girls aint never perfect, perfect girls aint real.

The ones I love most are the people who the flaws show. I like doing characters that we see the total person. If people get afraid to show the flaws because they think, "Oh, then nobody will like them," then you end up with a lot of products, and everybody wants to be frigging heroic all the time - not what people are trapped in every day, like your skirt being in your panties after you walk out of the bathroom. Being human. Sometimes when people are drawn to your work, they're drawn because they recognize themselves or their loved ones or their neighbor in it.

The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.

Grace means we don't need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they're working.

Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.

No matter what you do, it can't be perfect. I told Jack White, 'If I'd 'a sung that song more'n twice, it might of sounded better.' He said, 'Well, it might not of. You might have took the spark out of it.' I don't know if he has a point or not. We'll find out.

Switching off perfection switched on the human quality