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.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

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 think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

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

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll.

Well, the title "An Inconvenient Truth" is a way of highlighting the reasons why some people, including the president, don't seem to accept the truth.

Without my protectionm your journey is doomed before you begin.' Great! I thought. Even the snake is a critic!

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.

There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going.

Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will.

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.

A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.

Your body Hurts me as the world hurts God

Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.