I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.
The projector will soon disappear. The camera, not really. OK, it depends. . . it depends on change.
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.
A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been born yet about what we think about right now.
It's become more and more of a priority for me to tread as lightly as possible in the world.
Let's not pray long, drawn-out prayers, but let's pray short ones full of love. Let us pray on behalf of those who do not pray. Let us remember, if we want to be able to love, we must be able to pray!
The future of Cuba is one earned by a country that has resisted for over 50 years against the most powerful empire on Earth. The resilience of its people made this triumph materialize.