Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

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

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

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

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

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

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

If you have enough money to be comfortable it makes life a lot easier and that's undeniable. But I think happiness is more elusive.

Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.

The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all.

Things are finally starting to calm down and be the way they're supposed to be. I think things happen for a reason.

One smell of brimstone makes the whole world kin.

The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.

Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.