If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
Writers are not meant for action.
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.