I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing.

Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.

I think there are some artists whose works are misanthropic.

I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.

Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.

Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.

Apparently, I'm very, very popular in jails. They often ask me to come and speak.