Lourdes Portillo

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[Wikipedia] Lourdes Portillo was a Mexican film director, producer, and writer. The political perspectives of Portillo's films have been described as "nuanced" and versed with a point of view balanced by her experience as a lesbian and Chicana woman. Portillo films have been widely studied and analyzed, particu

Quotes by Lourdes Portillo

My McQueen particularly was hard to make, because my father was dying. I see it, and I see my confusion, my pain,…

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Confusion

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My films have to do with justice and many, many other concerns. That's the sad part of coming from my generation, and…

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Cinema

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I've done experimental work, I've done real conventional documentaries that were very successful, like Las Madres that was nominated for an Academy…

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Academy award

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I actually love actors.

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Love

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I'm doing a lot of research right now on what's happening in Arizona. That's where I'm at with more conventional documentary filmmaking.…

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Cinema

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I received a phone call from my mother, and it was so complicated and involved, and it reminded me of just how…

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Complicated

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I looked to many, many filmmakers. I was influenced by the Neo-Realists, and by the Cuban, and the Latin American cinema, the…

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Cinema

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I have different interests, and what happens with making a film is that you're going to live with it for a long…

Lourdes Portillo

Cinema

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Even though I make documentaries, everyone's acting in a way. Really. And you're creating, and you're confabulating things. You can't relive reality,…

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Acting

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I'm making a kind of a memoir of certain aspects and times in my life. Now that I'm older I can look…

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Kind

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