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"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."
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"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 had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."
"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."
"One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently."
"If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious."
"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."
"My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor."
"Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed."
"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."
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"Letterman... he got his problems. We don't get along too well."
"You may have numerous answers to your problems, but none can really solve them. Answers are not solutions."
"We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem."
"The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication."
"We learn by our problems. We correct our deficiencies if there are any."
"For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems."
"And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility."
"A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything."
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