I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

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.

Only those who'd changed could see things from a different point of view.

It is not female egotism to say that the future of mankind may very well be ours to determine. It is a fact.

No matter the nature of your individuality, you can nurture a better identity and have a mature positively rewarding life.

There is a stark difference between fear and uncertainty, Sarai. You fear nothing but are uncertain of everything.

The things that get rewarded, get done

Lo and behold! God made this starry wold, The maggot and the mold; lo and behold! He taught the grass contentment blade by blade, The sanctity of sameness in a shade.

I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

Do not worry. Try to appear jolly and unconcerned. I have smiled often with the bases full with two strikes and three balls on the batter. This seems to unnerve.

I'm not disciplined enough to be a writer consistently. I write when I have to.