The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

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

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

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