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

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

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.

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

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

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