The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

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.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.