The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

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.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

POZZO:I am blind.(Silence.)ESTRAGON:Perhaps he can see into the future.

We form a mental map, and then that shape, shapes us

She'd be more than happy. She'd be strong.

Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than you.

All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.

I will not fall in love with you," she said. "I can't let myself. I won't." "That's all right. I'll love you enough for the both of us.

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you’re really going about it the wrong way.

See, broken things always have a story, don't they?