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" When you're filming, you're blind. But if you follow what really moves you, then you operate from a place of hope: maybe that the story you're telling will resonate with whatever the world will have become when the film is ready to be born. "

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

" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 interested in the intersection of character and actor. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I have never been religious, but I've seen the strength of it. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

" 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. "