Top 61 Quotes by Manuel Puig

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.

I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

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

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

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.

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.