I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes. Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.

I don't like film. Film is too clankingly real, too permanent, too industrial for me. ... The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripple…

And so on.

This script, it seems to me, is the work of professionals who yearned to be as charming as inspired amateurs can sometimes be.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

'Bad books on writing and thoughtless English professors solemnly tell beginners to 'Write What You Know', which explains why so many mediocre novels are about…

It was I who gave the title 'J'accuse' to Zola's letter.