Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.

It's a mind going over things, revisiting things, maybe trying to refine the original perception. You have to keep going a thing over in order to make sense off it.

The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than skimming the surface.

I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was more I wanted to say.

Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life.

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.