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.

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

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

I only understand realism.

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

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