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

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 pleasure was to copy, not to create.

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 careful not to have his hands tied.

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.

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