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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. "

Sebastian Lelio

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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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" 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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" We all have a potential revolutionary energy inside. "

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

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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 don't come from a rich family, but my parents are professionals. "

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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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" Sometimes we have to disobey in order to transcend, in order to survive. "

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" 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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" 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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