I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

The translator’s task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That’s hard!

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn’t have a personal point of view, it’s impossible to be...

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

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

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

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

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn’t use irony to reduce their power.

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’ve always wondered why there isn’t a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren’t interested in telling that sort of thing.

I believe that people who don’t achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

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.