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.

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

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

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

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

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.

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.