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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.

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I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.

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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

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I allow my intuition to lead my path.

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Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

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Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.

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Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

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As a rule, one should never place form over content.

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Biography

Nationality: Argentinian

Type: Author

Born: December 28th, 1932

Died: July 22nd, 1990

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