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I only understand realism.
Writers are not meant for action.
I allow my intuition to lead my path.
My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
As a rule, one should never place form over content.
Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
Being a man (male "macho") does not give you right to anything.
I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.
Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
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
All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.
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.