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I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.
I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.
I have two little children. I didn't want to be missing their childhood while I was away, busy writing about children.
What is it like to fall asleep? What happens? Where do we go? Why don't we remember? Since childhood most of us have wondered about the mystery of sleep.
An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
I met Iman and Jerry Hall and all those girls in the late Seventies right when I started working at the fashion shows in Paris as an assistant.
I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.
The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
