It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

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.

Life is a piece of art drawn by love on the canvas of hope with the colors of desires, wants, and needs.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

I was a couple of summers past twenty but I felt there were stones under that frozen, dun earth that were younger than me.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.

No nostalgia runs deeper than that for something one has never known and now cannot obtain.

When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it.

With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.

But I also know in standup, there's nowhere to hide. You get on stage and you deliver, or you are eviscerated and you are thrown into a pile of bodies at the bottom of a mountain.