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When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.

The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.

Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It's inevitable how that happens, but it's generic. Say I've written a story where my sister dies. 'Well, did your sister die?' No, she did not. But people use those straws to grasp at the difference between reality and fiction.

You are always invested in a film, but there is always a different feeling you get when you are portraying a character that is based on real life and you are re-telling events that actually took place.

I've done a lot of movies based on real people, real situations, non-fiction books, magazine articles, life rights.