I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

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 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 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.

God would never place a dream in your heart that He didn't have the ability to fulfill.

If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are.

Stop your ignorance! Seek for wisdom and give understanding a way!

What day is it?” It’s today, squeaked Piglet. My favorite day, said Pooh.

The sacrifices in the war against terrorism reflect complete and strong determination of Pakistan against terrorism.

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.

Today in Sri Lanka, Pope Francis visited a Buddhist temple. When asked why, the Pope said, 'Just keeping my options open. It's a dicey job market. You never know.'

We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.

Africa north of the Sahara, from a zoological point of view, is now, and has been since early Tertiary times, a part of Europe. This is true both of animals and of the races of man.

I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.