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

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

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written..

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 Fre….

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 grow….

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power..

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry..

I allow my intuition to lead my path..

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of th….

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 le….

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious..

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

As a rule, one should never place form over content..

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed..

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself..

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?.

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side..

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor..

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 unde….

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a universit….