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When I was a child, we used to look forward to the end of the day when we would hear another ten minutes of a story.

I loved doing 'Countdown.' I now consider that I was very, very lucky - not just because it was such a wonderful show to do, but because it lasted for so long.

I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.

People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're given.

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.

I told my whole life story in my book.

My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.

For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story that corresponded to that phrase.

I'm one of those people who think that stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end, and then they're over, and then you tell the next story.

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.