I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

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

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

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

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.

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.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.