Claudia Llosa

"Language can imprison or liberate depending on who controls it."

"Displacement teaches you who you truly are."

"I make films to give voice to those deemed voiceless by the powerful."

"The invisible made visible is the purpose of my art."

"Ritual connects us to something larger than ourselves."

"To be from nowhere is also to be from everywhere."

"Silence can be louder than any dialogue if you know how to listen."

"Art is the only revolution that doesn't require weapons."

"My films are conversations with my ancestors."

"The personal is always political; the intimate is always universal."

"Water remembers what we forget."

"To film is to bear witness and to testify."

"Every body has a story written in its movements and gestures."

"We are all exiles in the geography of our own time."

"The camera doesn't lie, but we lie with the camera."

"Transformation begins when we stop hiding our wounds."

"Indigenous cultures are not history; they are presence."

"To create from pain is to create hope."

"The poetic is more true than the factual."

"Repetition in art is a form of prayer and protest."

"Women's bodies carry the memory of generations."

"To be Peruvian, to be indigenous, is to inherit resistance."

"Films should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed."

"Every frame is a decision about what matters and what is invisible."

"The universal is hidden in the most particular details."

"Art without courage is just decoration."

"I choose stories that society has chosen to forget."

"Mortality teaches us the value of presence."

"The image is more powerful than ideology."

"To witness suffering is to take responsibility for it."