We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn’t use irony to reduce their power.

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

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It’s closer to our dreams.

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 saw in childhood.

The translator’s task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That’s hard!

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

All of my problems are rather complicated – I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It’s like a personal therapy.

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

In film, you can’t go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

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