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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
- Manuel Puig
#Comic
#Humor
#Life
#Need
#Think
I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
- Manuel Puig
#Half
#Hour
#More
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#Two
I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
- Manuel Puig
#Difficulty
#Film
#My Own
#Own
#Somebody
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 still growing.
- Manuel Puig
#Consumption
#Growing Up
#Movies
#Up
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 reality.
- Manuel Puig
#American
#Cinema
#Me
#Reality
#Result
I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
- Manuel Puig
#Felt
#Myself
#Need
#Tell
#Understand
I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
- Manuel Puig
#Believe
#I Believe That
#I Believe
#Life
I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.
- Manuel Puig
#Forced
#Humor
#Part
#Think
#Universe
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
- Manuel Puig
#Free
#Imagination
#Order
#Someone
#Who
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
- Manuel Puig
#Environment
#He
#How
#Individual
#Way
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
- Manuel Puig
#About
#Been
#Kind
#Whom
#Writer
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
- Manuel Puig
#Create
#Hard
#Language
#Own
#Task
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 understand it.
- Manuel Puig
#Information
#Mind
#Reading
#Understand
Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
- Manuel Puig
#Book
#Me
#Never
#Time
#Work
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.
- Manuel Puig
#Complicated
#Problems
#Short
#Story
I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.
- Manuel Puig
#Character
#Then
#Try
#Understand
#Work
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
- Manuel Puig
#Days
#Fantasy
#Old Days
#Old
#Writing
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
- Manuel Puig
#American
#Countries
#Give
#Hope
#Needed
I allow my intuition to lead my path.
- Manuel Puig
#Allow
#Intuition
#Lead
#Path
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
#Back
#Carry
#Country
#History
#People
I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
- Manuel Puig
#Believe
#Constitution
#Nothing
#Reality
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
#Camera
#Clear
#Literature
#Objective
#Us
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
- Manuel Puig
#Better
#Intellectual
#Intuition
#Work
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
- Manuel Puig
#Better
#Dream
#Dreams
#Simplify
#Than
If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
- Manuel Puig
#Force
#Great
#People
#Positive
#Who
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