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

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

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

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

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.

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.

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.