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

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 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.

Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn't looking.

Do not believe all that you hear and see.Always check the original source of information.

I don't know how to lead but by example.

Don't strive for love, be it.

..the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.

Business owners have made a strong case to me that they need guest workers. But none has suggested that these workers should be placed on a path to citizenship.

The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.

None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.

The greatest formula that can liberate, cleanse and elevate the mind is Rama-Name, the Name of Rama.

This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.