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.

As a rule, one should never place form over content.

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

Writers are not meant for action.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

I only understand realism.