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

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

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

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

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.

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.