Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!


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What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
WALTER SCOTT
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some kno...
WALTER SCOTT
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
WALTER SCOTT
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTT
Look back, and smile on perils past.
WALTER SCOTT
When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT.
WALTER SALLES
We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred...
WALTER SALLES
The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
WALTER SALLES
The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that ...
WALTER SALLES
The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for t...
WALTER SALLES
The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations be...
WALTER SALLES
That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you unde...
WALTER SALLES
So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil.
WALTER SALLES
So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.
WALTER SALLES
So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialog...
WALTER SALLES
No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
WALTER SALLES
It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gott...
WALTER SALLES
I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.
WALTER SALLES
I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.
WALTER SALLES
I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
WALTER SALLES
I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young c...
WALTER SALLES
But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the begin...
WALTER SALLES
Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American film...
WALTER SALLES
My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to cu...
WALTER SALLES
I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.
WALTER SALLES
And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done...
WALTER SALLES
Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who wen...
WALTER SALLES
A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
WALTER SALLES
The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil.
WALTER SALLES
There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much pr...
WALTER SALLES
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
WALTER SALLES
There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to ...
WALTER REUTHER
I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
WALTER REISCH
A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
WALTER REISCH
Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later.
WALTER REISCH