Yann Martel

I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

I am not an autobiographical writer.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.