top of page
Quote_1.png
Manuel Puig

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

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

Exlpore more Movies quotes

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy."

Explore more quotes by Manuel Puig

Quote_1.png
Manuel Puig
"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work."
Quote_1.png
Manuel Puig
"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."
Quote_1.png
Manuel Puig
"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."
Quote_1.png
Manuel Puig
"I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written."
Quote_1.png
Manuel Puig
"It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope."
Quote_1.png
Manuel Puig
"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."
Quote_1.png
Manuel Puig
"If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious."
Quote_1.png
Manuel Puig
"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."
Quote_1.png
Manuel Puig
"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution."
Quote_1.png
Manuel Puig
"I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all."
bottom of page