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

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

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

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.

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.