I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.

I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal.

An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end.

It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of them is always shifting and changing over the years.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

Things always change, and New York teaches you that.