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Truth is quite constricting, in a way. You endlessly see at the start of a film 'This is a true story'.

When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece.

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

I have a hard time keeping a story straight when I tell the truth because when you start lying you have to remember what you said, and I'm not very good at that.

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

Sometimes when you tell a story, you reach a little bit too far just to make the story a better one.