My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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.
In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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 would very much like to become a best-selling author.
I only understand realism.
I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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 didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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 believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
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.
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.
Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
