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Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.

I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

You can read 50 great things about yourself, but the one bad thing will be what you remember most.

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.