The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

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.

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

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

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

As a rule, one should never place form over content.