Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

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.

There is nothing wrong or right, only our thoughts make it so.

It's useful for activists just to be out there to keep you mindful and not get complacent, even if ultimately you think some of their criticism is misguided.

I think, it is a challenge to get critics or whoever to see past what you wear and makeup and the way you look and just concentrate on the music.

If I could make noise with anything, I was going to.

Has WikiLeaks been forced to do one thing rather than another in response to resource constraints? Yes. Constantly.

The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first.

I wrote an entire movie [Man up] about how important I think voices are, so it was funny.

If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present

Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.