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I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

I think it's more interesting to throw people into a story and let them catch up instead of explaining and feeling like you have to slow down for them. I think audiences, for the most part, they don't want to be ahead of you.

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.

When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.

Sometimes when you tell a story, you reach a little bit too far just to make the story a better one.

I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

It's rare that you cut out something that is really good. You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn't respond, you cut out whatever is holding the story down.

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.