Manuel Puig Reality Quotations

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

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

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.

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

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

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