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.

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

I only understand realism.

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

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.

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

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