Sebastian Lelio

We all have a potential revolutionary energy inside.

— Sebastian Lelio

The idea behind 'Gloria' was to take a secondary character - the aunt, the mother - and stay with her as she…

— Sebastian Lelio

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

— Sebastian Lelio

There's something about using the cinematic device as a tool to connect with dimensions of the world that you don't know too…

— Sebastian Lelio

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

— Sebastian Lelio

I was writing when I was very young, and then I became interested in everything - I wanted to do photography. I…

— Sebastian Lelio

I wanted to be a poet. I wrote from ages 15 to 22, but I left it because I discovered, and fell…

— Sebastian Lelio

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

— Sebastian Lelio

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

— Sebastian Lelio

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

— Sebastian Lelio

When you're filming, not everything is rational.

— Sebastian Lelio

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

To me, there was something moving about the idea of telling the story of a lady who is, in a way, a…

— Sebastian Lelio

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

— Sebastian Lelio

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

— Sebastian Lelio

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

I was always making new friends, then losing them.

— Sebastian Lelio

Either we learn to live together and embrace the complexity of life, or we will end up with fascism again and destroy…

— Sebastian Lelio

In the case of 'Disobedience,' the very secretive way of life and religion and tradition that the North London Orthodox Jewish community…

— Sebastian Lelio

Death is astute as a master. It's a process that teaches people aspects of themselves.

— Sebastian Lelio

I'm very open to following the stories that move me and reach that flexibility where you can be more flexible. I'm expanding…

— Sebastian Lelio

We all face crossroads in our lives where we can retreat into ourselves, or we can hit the dance floor.

— Sebastian Lelio

There has been too much silliness and cliche when looking at older people: I think that hides a fear of death that…

— Sebastian Lelio

Poetry was my 'in' to the idea that I could express myself through art.

— Sebastian Lelio

'Gloria' was a gamble.

— Sebastian Lelio