I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

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

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

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

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