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

Sebastian Lelio

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" 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. "

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

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" In the case of 'Fantastic Woman,' I wanted to make it a more complex animal than just a 'cause' film. Even though I was sympathizing with the character's struggle, I didn't want to be trapped at that level - it's important, but it can be quite basic. "

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

Sebastian Lelio

" 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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" '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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" I'm interested in the intersection of character and actor. "

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" I'm interested in characters. I love them, and I love to write them. "

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" I was always making new friends, then losing 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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" English is not my language. "

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

Sebastian Lelio

" 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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" 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. "

Sebastian Lelio

" 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. "

Sebastian Lelio

" Rachel Weisz is amazing, instinctive, volcanic - an amazing force of nature. "

Sebastian Lelio

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

Sebastian Lelio

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

Sebastian Lelio

" I grew up in a dictatorship in a very Catholic country. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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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