Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Sebastian Lelio

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

Sebastian Lelio

" 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. "

Sebastian Lelio

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

Sebastian Lelio

" 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. "

Sebastian Lelio

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

Sebastian Lelio

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

Sebastian Lelio

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

Sebastian Lelio

" 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. "

Sebastian Lelio

" 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. "

Sebastian Lelio

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

Sebastian Lelio

" 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. "

Sebastian Lelio

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

Sebastian Lelio

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

Sebastian Lelio

" 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. "

Sebastian Lelio

" 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

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

Sebastian Lelio

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

Sebastian Lelio

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

Sebastian Lelio

" 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. "

Sebastian Lelio

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

Sebastian Lelio

" English is not my language. "

Sebastian Lelio

" 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. "

Sebastian Lelio

" We all have a potential revolutionary energy inside. "

Sebastian Lelio

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

Sebastian Lelio

" I had the idea that I'm going to make a trans-genre film about a transgender woman. "

Sebastian Lelio

" 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

" 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. "

Sebastian Lelio

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

Sebastian Lelio

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

Sebastian Lelio

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

Sebastian Lelio