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

I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

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

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

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

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.