My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

Being a man (male "macho") does not give you right to anything.

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