Manuel Puig Quotes - Page 3

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• 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.

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  Reality, Cinema, Literature

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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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  Reading, Different, Attention

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• 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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  Believe, Special, Literature

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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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  Growing Up, Years, Saws

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• In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

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  Ghouls, Film, Exploration

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• My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

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  Literature, Aspiration, Tropics

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

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  Writing, Literature, Fantasy

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• I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

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  Believe, Successful, People

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• Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

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  Writing, Thinking, Literature

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• The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

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  Tasks, Language, Tension

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• What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

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  Thinking, Intellectual, Intuition

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• 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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  Objectivity, Narrators, Cameras

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• I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

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  Selling

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• I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

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  Two, Space, Giving

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• I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

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  Book, Literature, Study

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