In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert? — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. — Manuel Puig Copy Share
If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force. — Manuel Puig Copy Share
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. — Manuel Puig Copy Share
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of… — Manuel Puig Copy Share
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand,… — Manuel Puig Copy Share
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… — Manuel Puig Copy Share
I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more… — Manuel Puig Copy Share
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life. — Manuel Puig Copy Share
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. — Manuel Puig Copy Share
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not… — Manuel Puig Copy Share
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they? — Manuel Puig Copy Share
Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature. — Manuel Puig Copy Share
