Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
I only understand realism.
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
Being a man (male "macho") does not give you right to anything.
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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.
I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.
It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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.
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.