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

I only understand realism.

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

Being a man (male "macho") does not give you right to anything.

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.