Top 61 Quotes by Manuel Puig

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

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.

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

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