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

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

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 believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.