My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

I only understand realism.

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

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