55 Quotes by Sebastian Lelio

Those of us who make movies play with perception and reality; those who watch our films are responsible for making sense of it.

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.

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

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.

I'm interested in the intersection of character and actor.

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.

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

Latin American culture is conservative, and the rural areas are tremendously conservative. I don't believe that's just a Chilean thing.