Chilean - Director | March 8, 1974 -
I had the idea that I'm going to make a trans-genre film about a transgender woman.
Sebastian Lelio
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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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Poetry was my 'in' to the idea that I could express myself through art.
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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.
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The idea behind 'Gloria' was to take a secondary character - the aunt, the mother - and stay with her as she becomes our protagonist.
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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.
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We all have a potential revolutionary energy inside.
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I'm interested in characters. I love them, and I love to write them.
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Rachel Weisz is amazing, instinctive, volcanic - an amazing force of nature.
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Death is astute as a master. It's a process that teaches people aspects of themselves.
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I grew up in a dictatorship in a very Catholic country.
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I have never been religious, but I've seen the strength of it.
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