I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
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.
I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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.
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.
Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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.
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.
I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
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.
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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 a creator.
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
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