"I think cinema is closer to allegories than……" — Manuel Puig
"I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams."
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Manuel Puig
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63 Quotes by Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig has 63 quotes on this site.
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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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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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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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More Allegories Quotes
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one of 12 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies…
— Herman Melville
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There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles,…
— Stanley Kubrick
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A Witch's work is mind work and utilizes powerful metaphors, allegories, and images that unlock the powers of the mind.
— Laurie Cabot
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Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories…
— Henry Timrod
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The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.
— Michel Tournier
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The Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and…
— William Howard Taft
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Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.
— Walter Benjamin
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There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed…
— A. S. Byatt
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Obviously I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct -…
— Neill Blomkamp
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Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of…
— Milan Kundera
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A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the…
— Allen Ginsberg
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