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.

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

I allow my intuition to lead my path.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

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