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

The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

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

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

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

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?