I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

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?

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

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.

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