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

In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

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

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

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

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.