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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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" 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. "

Sebastian Lelio

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" We all have a potential revolutionary energy inside. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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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" English is not my language. "

Sebastian Lelio

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" Rachel Weisz is amazing, instinctive, volcanic - an amazing force of nature. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" '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. "

" Latin American culture is conservative, and the rural areas are tremendously conservative. I don't believe that's just a Chilean thing. "

" 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. "

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

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