 My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics. |
| I only understand realism. |
| Tardiness in literature can make me nervous. |
| 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. |
| The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. |
| Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying. |
| My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. |
| I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious. |
| I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written. |
| 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. |
| What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. |
| My pleasure was to copy, not to create. |
| Writers are not meant for action. |
| Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader. |
| It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope. |
| 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 believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful. |
| 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 am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry. |
| 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. |
