I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.