Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Truth is quite constricting, in a way. You endlessly see at the start of a film 'This is a true story'.
Films are neither true nor false. That includes my films, as well as others. They may make claims that are true or false, but films are too complex. They have too many ingredients.
In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.
False stories used to affect me initially. But now, I've come to understand that if false stories are created, they are also forgotten in the long run.
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.
Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories.
Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.
Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'
I've done 21 films in eight years, and I've said 'No' more times than I've done films.
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