I only understand realism.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

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

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

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

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