Jon Landau Quotes

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

I write about my life.

I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

Everything I write is about me.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it.

I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.

First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

To me, writing is a personal thing; I write super-personal, autobiographically.

I didn't know you could write about yourself. Nobody ever told me about this.

When I write for myself, I think about myself and draw from my own experience.

I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

I've never been a confessional writer.

The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?

I love songs that are very autobiographical.

All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the personages. In fact, I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person singular.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

I made the character as much of myself as I could.

My act is based on my life.