I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.
I only understand realism.
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 think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
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.
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
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.
I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.