I had the idea that I'm going to make a trans-genre film about a transgender woman. — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
The mystery of film is not in the script. It's in the shooting, in the interacting of humans and space and time. — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
Cinema is empathy machinery, and we multiply our life experience through cinema. When it is good cinema, it almost counts as a… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
In Latin America, cinema has always been a bourgeois activity, I guess, as it is everywhere. It's just a stupidly expensive art… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
In order to make a film, you have to operate on many different levels, making all these different forms of expression converse,… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
Those of us who make movies play with perception and reality; those who watch our films are responsible for making sense of… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
Film is a game of projections upon projections, and the projected image on the screen is a game of light and shadows.… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
When you're filming, you're blind. But if you follow what really moves you, then you operate from a place of hope: maybe… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
I was writing when I was very young, and then I became interested in everything - I wanted to do photography. I… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
The living experience of film only happens when a film is seen, and only within the spectator, because they project their own… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
The idea behind 'Gloria' was to take a secondary character - the aunt, the mother - and stay with her as she becomes our… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share
Cinema is empathy machinery, and we multiply our life experience through cinema. When it is good cinema, it almost counts as a personal experience. — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share
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… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share
I was writing when I was very young, and then I became interested in everything - I wanted to do photography. I wanted to… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share
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. — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share
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… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share
To me, there was something moving about the idea of telling the story of a lady who is, in a way, a forgotten character… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share
This idea of walls, segregation, labels, and 'You against us' and 'We are superior and you are inferior.' Which people are legitimate? Which relationships… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share
I grew up surrounded by strong women, and that was a very strong influence. — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share
