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We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
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One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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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.
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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.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
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