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" Casting is an art, and if you're interested in people, like I am, casting is essential. "
Sebastian Lelio
People
You
I Am
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" I'm very open to following the stories that move me and reach that flexibility where you can be more flexible. I'm expanding my horizons. "
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" I'm interested in characters. I love them, and I love to write them. "
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" Every human society has its lights and its shadows. That's the reality of existence. "
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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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" I'm always trying to get my characters to the point of complete rebelliousness. I like that attitude that characters feel when they own their lives. There's something beautiful in the moments when characters disobey. "
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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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" Death is astute as a master. It's a process that teaches people aspects of themselves. "
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" I'm interested in the intersection of character and actor. "
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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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" 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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" 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 grew up surrounded by strong women, and that was a very strong influence. "
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" 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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Blind
World
You
" Fashion is totally political, the icon of a political system. "
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" How can you repress Rachel McAdams? She's so full of life. "
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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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Shooting
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Time
" English is not my language. "
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Language
" 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 knew 'Transparent' and saw a few episodes of 'Orange is the New Black,' so I knew about the trans actor in that cast. Of course, I saw 'Boys Don't Cry' back in the day. But the path that led me to this subject was different... it's just my curiosity as a human being more than my awareness of any political struggles. "
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" My stepfather was in the navy, so I got to know a side of Chile that is not what you would expect from an artist. "
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" Those of us who make movies play with perception and reality; those who watch our films are responsible for making sense of it. "
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" I was writing when I was very young, and then I became interested in everything - I wanted to do photography. I wanted to act. I wanted to write plays, and then I wanted to film and to paint, but I felt that film had a condition that reunites everything. "
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" I grew up in a dictatorship in a very Catholic country. "
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