I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

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

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I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

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

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

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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

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

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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

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Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

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

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