Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.
There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.
When a story is told really well and is real, even if it's not about their own lives, people can apply it to themselves.
History often reads as a hard and grim experience. But people are remarkably resilient and funny, even when the going is very hard.
I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.
You rehear your life by reading about what happens to other people.
People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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