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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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" 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. "

Sebastian Lelio

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" Casting is an art, and if you're interested in people, like I am, casting is essential. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The idea behind 'Gloria' was to take a secondary character - the aunt, the mother - and stay with her as she becomes our protagonist. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" English is not my language. "

Sebastian Lelio

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

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

" '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. "

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

" 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. "

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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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