I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

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.

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

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

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.