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

"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."

"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 careful not to have his hands tied."

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

"Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing."

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

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

"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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"I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know."

"I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc."

"Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat."

"My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy."

"Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content."
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