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" We all face crossroads in our lives where we can retreat into ourselves, or we can hit the dance floor. "
Sebastian Lelio
Dance
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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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" Fashion is totally political, the icon of a political system. "
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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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" I grew up in a dictatorship in a very Catholic country. "
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" Either we learn to live together and embrace the complexity of life, or we will end up with fascism again and destroy ourselves. "
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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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" I learned at an early age to be socially effective while practicing disappearing. "
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" Chilean society is conservative, but U.S. society is puritanical. "
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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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" 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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