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

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

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

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

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.

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

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.