Writers are not meant for action.

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.

Grace: All that I am and will be.

You can tell a lot about a society by what it fears.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

I'm fine I said for the 2,467th time this semester. (I know. I was keeping count)

I definitely don't want to achieve some kind of rock star status.

It's important in any project to remain focused.

You learn from doing and you learn from experiencing what it feels like to be present and lost in the moment with another artist.

All you do in a [stunt] video game, you can do in real life. If you have a passion, don't be too lazy to do it. I hope kids are inspired to go out and do what they really want to do.

We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn.