I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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 essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
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 am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
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?
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
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.
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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.
