Manuel Puig Quotes
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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
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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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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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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 taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
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I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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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 can act as an inhibitor.
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One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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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.
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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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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.
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If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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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.
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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 have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.
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I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
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It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.