I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

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.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.