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Manuel Puig

"It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied."

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"It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even though it was kind of loose and quite raucous - there were imitative movies that were not quite as good."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I make movies I want to see."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad."

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Manuel Puig
"Writers are not meant for action."

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

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Manuel Puig
"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."

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Manuel Puig
"I allow my intuition to lead my path."

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Manuel Puig
"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."

Nature

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

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Manuel Puig
"I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality."

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Manuel Puig
"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work."

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Manuel Puig
"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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Manuel Puig
"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."

Reading

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