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. — 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 that the story you're telling will resonate with whatever the world will have become when the film is… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I don't come from a rich family, but my parents are professionals. — 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 form, and… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
