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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. "

Sebastian Lelio

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

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

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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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" 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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" I didn't know how I was going to deal with 'Disobedience' because it takes place in such a specific and often secretive world. "

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

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

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

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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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" We all have a potential revolutionary energy inside. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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