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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 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. "

Sebastian Lelio

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

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

" 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'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. "

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

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

" Either we learn to live together and embrace the complexity of life, or we will end up with fascism again and destroy ourselves. "

" 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. "

Sebastian Lelio

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

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

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

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

" English is not my language. "

Sebastian Lelio

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

" 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. "

" The mystery of film is not in the script. It's in the shooting, in the interacting of humans and space and time. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We all have a potential revolutionary energy inside. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Those of us who make movies play with perception and reality; those who watch our films are responsible for making sense of it. "