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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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"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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"I make movies I want to see."

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

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"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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"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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"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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"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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"I allow my intuition to lead my path."
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"If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force."
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"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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"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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"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."
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"I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized."
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