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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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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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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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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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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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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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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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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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