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61 quotes by Manuel Puig

Manuel Puig, 1969 Manuel Puig (born Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne) (December 28, 1932 - July 22, 1990) was an Argentine author. Among his best known novels are La traición de Rita Hayworth (1968) (Betrayed by Rita Hayworth), Boquitas pintadas (1969) (Heartbreak Tango), and El beso de la mujer araña (1976) (Kiss of the Spider Woman), which was made into a film by the Argentine-Brazilian director Héctor Babenco, and in 1993 into a Broadway musical.
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I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

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

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

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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

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It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be... →

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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

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

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I allow my intuition to lead my path.

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All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

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

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I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

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

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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

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