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 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.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.