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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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I was writing when I was very young, and then I became interested in everything - I wanted to do photography. I wanted to act. I wanted to write plays, and then I wanted to film and to paint, but I felt that film had a condition that reunites everything.

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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.

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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.

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Film is a game of projections upon projections, and the projected image on the screen is a game of light and shadows. There is nothing there; it is the brain that is decoding those things. The film doesn't have any decipherable kind of meaning if it's not seen.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Chilean

Type: Director

Born: March 8th, 1974

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