102 Quotes by Manuel Puig


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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 believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

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    My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

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    For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

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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 doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

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