The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

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.

The pursuit of PhD is enduring daring adventure.

I’m one hell of a public speaker, baby. I’m going to let them see the pain, but if you turn around and start treating me like some damaged little victim, I will murder you. In your sleep.

As the economy is shifting, you need to have legitimate and creative sources of extra income. There are opportunities available that people have been using for years now.

To be able to make a living, I went into television. Not necessarily planned from the beginning, since I was more familiar with features, and had developed a few scripts.

Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.

If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.

Love your Job, but never fall in love with your Company.

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist.

The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.