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.

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

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

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.