I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.
I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.
Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.
The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.
There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language that everyone can understand.
Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.
I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.
The stories that I want to tell are completely, well, somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.
What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.
Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.
I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of my downtime is devoted to that.
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.
The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.
The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.
Of course, there were other sorts of literature -- theoretical, self-referencial, lachrymosely autobiographical -- but they were just dry wanks.
A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.
I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.
