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Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing. (Manuel Puig)
I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized. View quote
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something. View quote
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality. View quote
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I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution. View quote
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Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives. View quote
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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader. View quote
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I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry. View quote
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I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work. View quote
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I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful. View quote
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics. (Manuel Puig)
I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it. View quote
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The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator. View quote
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones. View quote
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing. View quote
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We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power. View quote
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The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. View quote
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One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently. View quote
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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor. View quote
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. View quote
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author. (Manuel Puig)
I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood. View quote
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you. View quote
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I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious. View quote
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Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level. View quote
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