I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

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

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

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

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.

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