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I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
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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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It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
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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.
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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.
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If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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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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Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
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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?
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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.
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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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