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.
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.
I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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