Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

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.

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.

I only understand realism.

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.

The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

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