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.

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.

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.