Manuel Puig Quotes

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• I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
• 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…
• I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
• Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that…
• The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
• I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
• Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of
• 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…
• I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working…
• If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully…
• I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
• It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he…
• In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
• 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…
• I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
• 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 information…
• My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
• I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.
• Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
• 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…

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