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I'm not sure I ever would write a memoir.

I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.

My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.

I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

Autobiographical fiction is very tricky.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.