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" Creative processes are always very opaque. Afterwards, you tend to pretend that everything was planned and it was a strategy, but it was not like that at all. "

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" There's something about using the cinematic device as a tool to connect with dimensions of the world that you don't know too well, you're not too familiar with. It's like a creating a bridge, or a spaceship to travel to the unknown. "

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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. "

" Death is astute as a master. It's a process that teaches people aspects of themselves. "

" I have never been religious, but I've seen the strength of it. "

" I had the idea that I'm going to make a trans-genre film about a transgender woman. "

" I grew up surrounded by strong women, and that was a very strong influence. "

" When you're filming, not everything is rational. "

" This idea of walls, segregation, labels, and 'You against us' and 'We are superior and you are inferior.' Which people are legitimate? Which relationships are legitimate or not? Who declares that under which authority? These are things that are hugely important. "

" English is not my language. "

Sebastian Lelio

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" In Latin America, cinema has always been a bourgeois activity, I guess, as it is everywhere. It's just a stupidly expensive art form, and there is nothing you can do about it. "

" The use of music in 'Gloria' is not cynical. "

" How can you repress Rachel McAdams? She's so full of life. "

" I learned at an early age to be socially effective while practicing disappearing. "

" We all have a potential revolutionary energy inside. "

" Poetry was my 'in' to the idea that I could express myself through art. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Those of us who make movies play with perception and reality; those who watch our films are responsible for making sense of it. "

" There has been too much silliness and cliche when looking at older people: I think that hides a fear of death that we have as a society. We are obsessed with youth and denying death. "

" Every human society has its lights and its shadows. That's the reality of existence. "

" 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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" Latin American culture is conservative, and the rural areas are tremendously conservative. I don't believe that's just a Chilean thing. "

" Either we learn to live together and embrace the complexity of life, or we will end up with fascism again and destroy ourselves. "

" The mystery of film is not in the script. It's in the shooting, in the interacting of humans and space and time. "

" It's not that I only want to make films about women, but from my experience, I have been very interested in the women who play these characters. "

" Cinema is empathy machinery, and we multiply our life experience through cinema. When it is good cinema, it almost counts as a personal experience. "

" Fashion is totally political, the icon of a political system. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Chilean society is conservative, but U.S. society is puritanical. "