All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.
My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.
What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.
My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.
I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.
I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly what happened to me!' I just use little snippets of things as a starting point!
Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.
All of my songs are autobiographical.