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"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."
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"I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing."
"Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days."
"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."
"I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it."
"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."
"Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it."
"I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories."
"I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended."
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"The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me."
"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading."
"I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well."
"I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster."
"Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds."
"It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others."
"It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles."
"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."
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