"I had stories that needed more space than……" — Manuel Puig
"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."
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Manuel Puig
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63 Quotes by Manuel Puig
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He,…
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing…
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The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend…
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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…
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration…
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If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a…
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It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can…
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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