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" How can you repress Rachel McAdams? She's so full of life. "
Sebastian Lelio
How
Repress
Life
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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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" 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. "
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" Casting is an art, and if you're interested in people, like I am, casting is essential. "
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" I don't believe in closed scripts; I think that they should be open. "
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" English is not my language. "
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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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" 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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" When you're filming, not everything is rational. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I was always making new friends, then losing them. "
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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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" Death is astute as a master. It's a process that teaches people aspects of themselves. "
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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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" 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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" 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 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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Curiosity
Day
" I'm not saying transgender characters should be only interpreted by transgender actors - because that would be as rigid as saying transgender actors cannot play cisgender roles, and that's not the idea. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" I'm interested in the intersection of character and actor. "
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" Sometimes we have to disobey in order to transcend, in order to survive. "
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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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" I grew up surrounded by strong women, and that was a very strong influence. "
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" Chilean society is conservative, but U.S. society is puritanical. "
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Society
" 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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