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

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

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.

I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.