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.

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.

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

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

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

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.