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

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

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.

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

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?