Quotes by Manuel Puig

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.

Movie

Needs

Stories

As a rule, one should never place form over content.

Form

Should

Being a man (male “macho”) does not give you right to anything.

Giving

Males

Men

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

Book

Literature

Waste

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.

Doe

Hands

Reality

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it’s essential to be free.

Imagination

Order

Writing

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.

Cameras

Narrators

Objectivity

I allow my intuition to lead my path.

Instinct

Intuition

Path

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

Literature

Taste

Watches

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.

Believe

Literature

Special

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Action

Aesthetic

America

Analysis

Aspiration

Attention

Beauty

Believe

Best Sellers

Book

Cameras

Cells

Character

Cinema

Convince

Copies

Country

Decision

Different

Doe

Dream

Environment

Exploration

Facade

Fantasy

Feelings

Film

Form

Ghouls

Giving

Great French

Great Literary

Growing Up

Hands

Hollywood

Humor

Hygiene

Imagination

Influence

Instinct

Intellectual

Intuition

Language

Latin

Literature

Long

Madness

Males

Matter

Men

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Quotes by Manuel Puig

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.

As a rule, one should never place form over content.

Being a man (male “macho”) does not give you right to anything.

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it’s essential to be free.

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.

I allow my intuition to lead my path.

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

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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