Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

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.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

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