Manuel Puig quotes - page 3

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life. (Manuel Puig)
In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that. View quote
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. View quote
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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot. View quote
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them. View quote
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I only understand realism. (Manuel Puig)
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they? View quote
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money. View quote
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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope. View quote
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Manuel Puig

Manuel Puig - Image
Photo: Elisa Cabot, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: Argentinian Author
Born: December 28, 1932
Died: July 22, 1990
Quotes count: 64

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