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When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.

Movies are different from real life.

Oftentimes, reality is much worse than what you can put in a movie.

Truth be told, I hear stories every day that would make you say, 'If you put that in a movie, you wouldn't believe it.' Real life really is kinda incredible; the stories from people's actual lives defy credibility. People's lives are messy, humans are messy, and they're flawed.

Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this is my style. I tell stories like they are dreams. This is my imagination. For me, it would be impossible to do a film that is so precise, that resembles real life.

I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.

Sometimes movies gloss over things, and it was important to me that this was realistic.

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.