Director

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

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.

English is not my language.

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've been following my intuition and what moves me.

I was always making new friends, then losing them.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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'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.

How can you repress Rachel McAdams? She's so full of life.

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

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

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.

We all have a potential revolutionary energy inside.

Casting is an art, and if you're interested in people, like I am, casting is essential.