 Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time. |
| It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade. |
| My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor. |
| Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives. |
| If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious. |
| Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. |
| I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side. |
| 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. |
| I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot. |
| 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? |
| We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power. |
| I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution. |
| 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. |
| I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it. |
| 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. |
| 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 think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. |
| 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 had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you. |
| I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself. |
