Slavoj Zizek, "... it is not only that Hollywood stages a semblance of real life deprived of the weight and inertia of materiality - in the late capitalist consumerist society, 'real social life' itself somehow acquires the features of a staged fake, with our neighbours behaving in 'real' life as stage actors and extras... [T]he ultimate truth of the capitalist-utilitarian de-spiritualized universe is the de-materialization of the 'real life' itself, its reversal into a spectral show."

..in order to tell a compelling story and to make our world comprehensible, we preplan, script and edit our lives... In order to keep going in a world where every desire and every decision is valid, we have to creatively bring a sense of order to our lives. Non-fiction allows us to believe that the stories we tell ourselves about our existence have meaning and importance.