“It's not an easy thing to tell a true story.”
“Those are the facts. It's easy to believe in facts, my dear. To believe in the story you need faith. Tell me the story as you experienced it.”
“Underdog stories are easy to tell. It is best to be suspicious of underdog stories.”
“Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story.”
“You can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.”
“There is such a thing as robbing a story of its reality by trying to make it too true...”