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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. "

Sebastian Lelio

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

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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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" 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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" When you're filming, not everything is rational. "

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

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

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

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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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" English is not my language. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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