I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

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.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.