In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

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

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

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

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

I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.