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" The use of music in 'Gloria' is not cynical. "

Sebastian Lelio

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

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" There's something about using the cinematic device as a tool to connect with dimensions of the world that you don't know too well, you're not too familiar with. It's like a creating a bridge, or a spaceship to travel to the unknown. "

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" English is not my language. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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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