I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

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.

Not everything can be felt and not everything will be ever understood.

My greatest fear is having to face God and explain to Him why I wasn't able to fulfill my purpose.

Tar had a reason, plenty of reasons. The latest were painted on his face, too.

It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it.

You cannot limit the power of your modesty to just what you wear. It is also controlled or forfeited by where you are willing to go with guys, why you go there, and how you act.

After you get a job and before you have to do it. Nothing beats that.

Balance is balancing.

Fame gets you in the door but it doesn't keep you in the room.

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.