Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination, where as you can watch a film-and even enjoy it-in a state of mindless passivity.

In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.

There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.

Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the streets, by reducing himself to a seeing eye, he was able to escape the obligation to think, and this, more than anything else, brought him a measure of peace, a salutary emptiness within...By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal and it no longer mattered where he was. On his best walks he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions.