My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

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

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

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

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