In the middle of an interview about his life story, from dodging the Vietnam War draft to hooking up with every woman in his life, Leonard Fife mentions that if your entire past is made of lies then you can only exist as a fictional character. That is exactly what Schrader has made himself here. Once he compares this act of self-mythologizing to a "homeless schizophrenic muttering to themselves," it becomes clear that Schrader feels like he owes it to…
