I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.
Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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.
Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
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.
I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
