Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life is my life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
I'm a novelist: I spend a great part of my day pretending to myself that I'm in a different world, being a different person, faced with decisions I pretend I haven't created.
For the serious biographer, history and the life story of a real individual are inseparably intertwined. Get the facts wrong, or distort them, and the life story gets distorted: becomes fiction.
All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.
I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.
All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.
My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.
I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to just fictionalize real people.