Words matter. These are the best Sebastian Lelio Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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 not too familiar with. It’s like a creating a bridge, or a spaceship to travel to the unknown.
I have never been religious, but I’ve seen the strength of it.
I’m always trying to get my characters to the point of complete rebelliousness. I like that attitude that characters feel when they own their lives. There’s something beautiful in the moments when characters disobey.
I’m not saying transgender characters should be only interpreted by transgender actors – because that would be as rigid as saying transgender actors cannot play cisgender roles, and that’s not the idea.
Creative processes are always very opaque. Afterwards, you tend to pretend that everything was planned and it was a strategy, but it was not like that at all.
My stepfather was in the navy, so I got to know a side of Chile that is not what you would expect from an artist.
The living experience of film only happens when a film is seen, and only within the spectator, because they project their own fears, desires, and fantasies upon those lights and shadows.
There has been too much silliness and cliche when looking at older people: I think that hides a fear of death that we have as a society. We are obsessed with youth and denying death.
I grew up surrounded by strong women, and that was a very strong influence.
I learned at an early age to be socially effective while practicing disappearing.
Fashion is totally political, the icon of a political system.
Rachel Weisz is amazing, instinctive, volcanic – an amazing force of nature.
In order to make a film, you have to operate on many different levels, making all these different forms of expression converse, and so I just followed that intuition.
Cinema is empathy machinery, and we multiply our life experience through cinema. When it is good cinema, it almost counts as a personal experience.
English is not my language.
We all face crossroads in our lives where we can retreat into ourselves, or we can hit the dance floor.
I was always making new friends, then losing them.
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.
I didn’t know how I was going to deal with ‘Disobedience’ because it takes place in such a specific and often secretive world.
I don’t believe in closed scripts; I think that they should be open.
I’m interested in the intersection of character and actor.
I’m interested in characters. I love them, and I love to write them.
I went to church as a boy, and then I quite quickly stepped away from religion. But I remained fascinated by the need people have for religion.
I’m very open to following the stories that move me and reach that flexibility where you can be more flexible. I’m expanding my horizons.
Sometimes we have to disobey in order to transcend, in order to survive.
It’s not that I only want to make films about women, but from my experience, I have been very interested in the women who play these characters.
Casting is an art, and if you’re interested in people, like I am, casting is essential.
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.
Every human society has its lights and its shadows. That’s the reality of existence.
Either we learn to live together and embrace the complexity of life, or we will end up with fascism again and destroy ourselves.
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 ready to be born.
The use of music in ‘Gloria’ is not cynical.
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 there is nothing you can do about it.
