I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

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

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

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