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.

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.

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

When you don’t know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious.

Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

Create happiness for others.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity

Some people will do schlock or anything, just to get their name on it.