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Manuel Puig

"My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs."

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"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."

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"I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?"

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"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."

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"The future is always a dystopia in movies."

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"A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action."

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"And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen."

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"You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about."

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"The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know."

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"January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out."

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"I like to make movies I like to watch."

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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
"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 write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer."

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Manuel Puig
"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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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
"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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Manuel Puig
"Writers are not meant for action."

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Manuel Puig
"It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope."

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Manuel Puig
"What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?"

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"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."

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