To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.
When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don't make it. So I tried to make it more refined. I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn't want to say or didn't want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
A metaphorical weight lifted from his allegorical chest and Artemis Fowl felt himself again.
The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.
As much as "The Lobster" feels like a world we recognize but not the world we live in, it's all drawn in an allegorical way from all the systems that exist.
Vegas is the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements, bizarre and beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate gratification.
