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

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

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 writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.