I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

Be who you want to be not what others want you to be.

He was an animal. Everyone knows never to corner one that's injured...even if it is just his pride.

There's no rule in the end, but only the situation and the inclination of your mind

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'

I tend to have a very analytical mind, I'm constantly thinking about how things can be better or different.

... I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well.

I wouldn't call it an addiction. But the truth is, when you join a team as a new professional you encounter a system. As a young rider, older riders let you know how the business works.

The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.

Once you really love a person and, if you want to be in a committed relationship the games need to stop. I mean, you can find some other games to play.