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" I'm interested in the intersection of character and actor. "
Sebastian Lelio
Character
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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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" 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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" '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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" 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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" Sometimes we have to disobey in order to transcend, in order to survive. "
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Sometimes
" The use of music in 'Gloria' is not cynical. "
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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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" 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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Will
" I have never been religious, but I've seen the strength of it. "
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Been
" 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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" 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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Intuition
You
Expression
" 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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Character
" I'm interested in characters. I love them, and I love to write them. "
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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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Writing
Film
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" English is not my language. "
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English
Language
" I don't believe in closed scripts; I think that they should be open. "
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I Think
Open
Should
" 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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" 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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" 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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Church
" 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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