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

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.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

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

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.