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.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

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

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.

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

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.

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