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" I was always making new friends, then losing them. "

Sebastian Lelio

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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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" I've been following my intuition and what moves me. "

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

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" I don't believe in closed scripts; I think that they should be open. "

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

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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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" '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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" 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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" English is not my language. "

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

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