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"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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"I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give."
"Once I got home, though, and saw several packages on my front porch, all the crap from the day disappeared. A few had smiley faces on them. Squealing, I grabbed the boxes. Books were inside-- new release books I'd preordered weeks ago."
"It's better to develop hobbies and interests than to have ideas about things."
"Alcohol does not solve problems but becomes a problem in itself."
"This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here."
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"Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed."
"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution."
"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."
"Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality."
"Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying."
"I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot."
"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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