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

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.

I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

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

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

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.