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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. "

Sebastian Lelio

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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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" We all face crossroads in our lives where we can retreat into ourselves, or we can hit the dance floor. "

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

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

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" Poetry was my 'in' to the idea that I could express myself through art. "

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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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