The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.

There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.

Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.