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"I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams."
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"Our imagination and hope become a reality if we have the courage to believe and take action to realize them."

"My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession."

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."

"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."

"I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren."

"Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?"
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"What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other."

"I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life."

"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."

"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."

"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."

"I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms."

"I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones."
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