“I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start ...” — Italo Calvino Quote

“I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon.”

“I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works.”

“I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it.”

“'My Night at Maud's,' 'Claire's Knee,' 'Chloe in the Afternoon' are grafted onto my life.”

“America was the one territory where they didn't release 'Nights In White Satin' at the time it was made. It was about three or four months later, after 'Tuesday Afternoon,' so I think we have a special fondness for it.”

“I was in a bookstore one afternoon, and I stumbled across this book called 'A Guide to Film Schools.' I always loved movies growing up and had never even conceived that it was something you could do for a living. Realizing most of them were in Los Angeles and knowing that was warm, I ended up applying.”