If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

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 think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.