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" Every human society has its lights and its shadows. That's the reality of existence. "
Sebastian Lelio
Reality
Society
Shadows
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" I'm interested in characters. I love them, and I love to write them. "
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" The mystery of film is not in the script. It's in the shooting, in the interacting of humans and space and time. "
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" I didn't know how I was going to deal with 'Disobedience' because it takes place in such a specific and often secretive world. "
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" We all face crossroads in our lives where we can retreat into ourselves, or we can hit the dance floor. "
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" The living experience of film only happens when a film is seen, and only within the spectator, because they project their own fears, desires, and fantasies upon those lights and shadows. "
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" I wanted to be a poet. I wrote from ages 15 to 22, but I left it because I discovered, and fell in love with, cinema. "
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" I was always making new friends, then losing them. "
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" Film is a game of projections upon projections, and the projected image on the screen is a game of light and shadows. There is nothing there; it is the brain that is decoding those things. The film doesn't have any decipherable kind of meaning if it's not seen. "
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" English is not my language. "
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" Latin American culture is conservative, and the rural areas are tremendously conservative. I don't believe that's just a Chilean thing. "
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" How can you repress Rachel McAdams? She's so full of life. "
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Life
" I've been following my intuition and what moves me. "
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Following
Me
Moves
" In order to make a film, you have to operate on many different levels, making all these different forms of expression converse, and so I just followed that intuition. "
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You
Expression
" I had the idea that I'm going to make a trans-genre film about a transgender woman. "
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Going
Idea
Film
" Death is astute as a master. It's a process that teaches people aspects of themselves. "
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Astute
Master
People
" To me, there was something moving about the idea of telling the story of a lady who is, in a way, a forgotten character - someone who would normally be a secondary role in a movie. "
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" I don't come from a rich family, but my parents are professionals. "
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Parents
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" The idea behind 'Gloria' was to take a secondary character - the aunt, the mother - and stay with her as she becomes our protagonist. "
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She
Aunt
Character
" 'Gloria' is a film about a fifty eight-year-old woman who is quite alone in life; however, she is quite optimistic. Nobody has much time for her, and so she regularly goes to these single adults' parties where she is looking for someone. By the end of the film, she doesn't necessarily find love, but she does find something else. "
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Woman
Life
Alone
" Chilean society is conservative, but U.S. society is puritanical. "
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Puritanical
Conservative
Society
" When you're filming, you're blind. But if you follow what really moves you, then you operate from a place of hope: maybe that the story you're telling will resonate with whatever the world will have become when the film is ready to be born. "
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Interested
" Cinema is empathy machinery, and we multiply our life experience through cinema. When it is good cinema, it almost counts as a personal experience. "
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" Fashion is totally political, the icon of a political system. "
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" I have never been religious, but I've seen the strength of it. "
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" In the case of 'Disobedience,' the very secretive way of life and religion and tradition that the North London Orthodox Jewish community has was a huge invitation to explore an unknown world. And also a possible trap, and I tried to overcome that by portraying it, hopefully, with great nuance and detail and texture. "
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" I went to church as a boy, and then I quite quickly stepped away from religion. But I remained fascinated by the need people have for religion. "
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