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"One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently."
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"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."
"We encounter great souls by reading great books."
"There is no other enjoyment like reading."
"Readers may be divided into four classes: I. Sponges, who absorb all they read, and return it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtied. II. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing, and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. III. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. IV. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also."
"What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?"
"I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain."
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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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