We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing it makes you feel like an idiot.
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
I don't think humor is forced upon my universe it's a part of it.
It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.