I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir.
I knew that I had to write my memoirs.
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.
People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.
And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.
I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of getting published. I found those years to be among the most difficult of my life.
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