“If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradise, paradise can exist, in some other place or country dimensionally reminiscent of our own. The sad stories live there too, but in that country, we know what they mean and why they happened. We make our way back from them, finding the way through a bountiful wilderness we begin to understand. Years are nothing: Story conquers all distance.” IfsKnowsWayYearsMeanCountryFactsStoriesFeelingsMemoriesFictionHappenedFindingsDistanceDetailsVersionsBeing TrueConquerParadiseWildernessTransformedSad Story Author:Jayne Anne Phillips
“We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.” IfsWayNeedsMeanMadeLinesFictionShapesBeing TrueDocumentariesAnother WayTextureAllegoryVagabonds Author:Agnes Varda
“I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.” TryingUseOrderMemoriesFictionProduceBeing TrueNot Sure Author:Elia Suleiman