55 Quotes by Sebastian Lelio

'Gloria' was a gamble.

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

The use of music in 'Gloria' is not cynical.

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

I learned at an early age to be socially effective while practicing disappearing.

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.

This idea of walls, segregation, labels, and 'You against us' and 'We are superior and you are inferior.' Which people are legitimate? Which relationships are legitimate or not? Who declares that under which authority? These are things that are hugely important.

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

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.