Chilean - Director | March 8, 1974 -
English is not my language.
Sebastian Lelio
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Casting is an art, and if you're interested in people, like I am, casting is essential.
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Those of us who make movies play with perception and reality; those who watch our films are responsible for making sense of it.
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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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I don't come from a rich family, but my parents are professionals.
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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.
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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.
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I'm interested in the intersection of character and actor.
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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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Chilean society is conservative, but U.S. society is puritanical.
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Latin American culture is conservative, and the rural areas are tremendously conservative. I don't believe that's just a Chilean thing.
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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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