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.

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

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.

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!