Claudia Llosa

Novelist Peruvian Born 1977 (age 49)

Peruvian filmmaker and writer.

390 quotes

"Art allows us to touch the eternal."
Art
"The human spirit survives through storytelling."
Inspiration
"Cinema is the language of becoming."
Art
"Truth is stranger and deeper than fiction."
Truth
"The world calls us to bear witness."
Wisdom
"Art is the voice of what cannot speak."
Art
"Cinema is a language that speaks to the soul, not just the mind."
Art
"I make films to understand myself and the world around me."
Creativity
"Memory is the cinema of the soul, playing endless reels of our past."
Life
"The visual language transcends words and reaches the universal human experience."
Art
"To be indigenous is to carry the weight of history in your present moment."
History
"Silence can be more powerful than any dialogue."
Wisdom
"I believe in the poetry of the invisible and the visible world."
Philosophy
"Art is resistance, a way to speak what cannot be spoken."
Art
"The body tells stories that words cannot capture."
Creativity
"Time moves differently in cinema; it bends and stretches like memory."
Time
"To create is to survive, to express is to live."
Life
"Beauty exists in the margins, in what society overlooks."
Beauty
"Every image is a choice, every choice reflects a worldview."
Wisdom
"I want my films to be like dreams that linger after waking."
Dreams
"The indigenous perspective offers a different way of seeing the world."
Knowledge
"Language is limited; cinema is infinite in its possibilities."
Art
"To work is to transform suffering into meaning."
Work
"I am interested in the spaces between things, the gaps that reveal truth."
Truth
"A film is a conversation between the filmmaker and the viewer."
Art
"Memory is not what happened, but what we remember and how we remember it."
Life
"The camera can lie beautifully, and sometimes that beauty reveals truth."
Art
"To be an artist is to be vulnerable in the most profound way."
Courage
"I create from necessity, not from comfort."
Creativity
"The world needs more poetry and less explanation."
Wisdom