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" 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. "

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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. "

Sebastian Lelio

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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. "

" '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. "

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

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

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

" 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

Strategy

You

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

Open

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

" 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. "

" English is not my language. "

Sebastian Lelio

English

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

" 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. "

" Cinema is empathy machinery, and we multiply our life experience through cinema. When it is good cinema, it almost counts as a personal experience. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" We all have a potential revolutionary energy inside. "

" 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. "

" Death is astute as a master. It's a process that teaches people aspects of themselves. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "