It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope..

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 care….

Being a man (male "macho") does not give you right to anything..

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 ….

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work..

My pleasure was to copy, not to create..

I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money..

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot..

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….

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution..

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it..

Writers are not meant for action..

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality..

I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them..

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader..

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs..

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently..

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force..

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous..

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you..

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 syntheti….