102 Quotes by Manuel Puig

In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

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.

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

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.

The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

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.

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.

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.