Film Quotes by Sebastian Lelio

11 Film quotes by Sebastian Lelio

Sebastian Lelio offers eleven brief reflections on film, each one shedding light on his artistic sensibility. This short set serves as a quick reference for readers interested in his perspective on the medium.

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'Gloria' was a gamble.

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I had the idea that I'm going to make a trans-genre film about a transgender woman.

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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…

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In order to make a film, you have to operate on many different levels, making all these different forms of expression converse,…

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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…

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

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

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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

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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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I don't come from a rich family, but my parents are professionals.

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

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

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When you're filming, not everything is rational.

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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…

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This idea of walls, segregation, labels, and 'You against us' and 'We are superior and you are inferior.' Which people are legitimate? Which relationships…

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I grew up surrounded by strong women, and that was a very strong influence.

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