My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

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.

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

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.