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I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to 'Talk Soup,' where I was writing and performing for TV.

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance.

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.

So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had met every head of studio, every executive and a lot of producers. I started finding things, little crumbs off other people's tables that I would make my own.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera.

I began my career creating art for an animated feature film, and it has been a life-long dream to tell some of the story of my own life - the story behind my art - through the medium of motion pictures.