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

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

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.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.