Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–2007) Italian film director and screenwriter
Encountering Directors interview (1969)
“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
— Patrick Rothfuss, book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind
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