“I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking ...” — Carlos Fuentes Quote

“I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.”

“Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.”

“There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.”

“I feel that if you're going to do theater, you've really got to throw yourself into the deep end. You have to commit your whole life and soul to it to make it the best it could ever be because theater can truly change people in lots of different ways. But I also think it can bore people to death, and it's quite a fine line between those two things.”

“People bore me. Film people particularly bore me. I prefer talking to my trees.”

“I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.”