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 Read Quote
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level. Manuel Puig Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Manuel Puig Read Quote
I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution. Manuel Puig Read Quote
I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That’s the genesis of all my work. Manuel Puig Read Quote
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives. Manuel Puig Read Quote
It’s my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel’s aesthetic facade. Manuel Puig Read Quote
It doesn’t matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope. Manuel Puig Read Quote
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 Read Quote
