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

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

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

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

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'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.