"We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn’t use irony to reduce their power." ― Manuel Puig Topic(s): Experience Tags: should, understand More From Manuel Puig "My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor." "I’m not a best-seller, but through translations, I’ve accumulated some money." "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." More In Experience "My experiences have taught me a lot and I’m happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn."― Ally Sheedy "Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don’t find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models."― Abel Ferrara "But in the back of my mind I’ve always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it’s done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it."― Christopher Nolan