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I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
You can put anything into words, except your own life.
There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.
Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.
Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.
