“The idea behind 'Gloria' was to take a secondary character - the aunt,...” — Sebastian Lelio Quote

“The idea behind 'Gloria' was to take a secondary character - the aunt, the mother - and stay with her as she becomes our protagonist.”

“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.”

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

“As a kid, I wanted to do so many different things; I saw my aunt as an air hostess, and then I wanted to be an air hostess. I found it very glamorous, but when I flew for the first time in my life, and I saw how air hostesses have to slog and how they have to work with everybody going 'ting-ting' and how they have to keep on running up and down.”

“Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don't know who my dad is, they think he's my coach.”