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

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

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

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.