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.

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.

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

I allow my intuition to lead my path.

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

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.