One Isn’t Born One’s Self. One Is

It's Very Attractive To People To Be A Victim. Instead Of Having To Think Out The Whole Situation, About History And Your Group And What You Are Doing... If You Begin From The Point Of View Of Being A Victim, You've Got It Half-made. I Mean Intellectually.

It Is Important Not To Trust People Too Much.

I've Never Abandoned The Novel.

The First 50 Years Of The Cinema Were Absolutely Great Years. Original Minds Were At Work Establishing The Ways To Tell A Story. And What Is Happening Now Is A Copying, A Pastiche-ing Of What Was Done By Great Men.

The Reason Is That They Define How I Have Gone About My Business. I Have Trusted To Intuition. I Did It At The Beginning. I Do It Even Now. I Have No Idea How Things Might Turn Out, Where In My Writing I Might Go Next.