Manuel Puig

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn’t use irony to reduce their…

If it’s great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It’s a positive force…

It doesn’t matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped…

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

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear…

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

I don’t think humor is forced upon my universe it’s a part of it…

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it’s…

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

I’m not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing it…

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so…

I like the beauty of Faulkner’s poetry. But I don’t like his themes, not at…

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It’s closer to our dreams…

I’ve never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States…

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for…