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I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.

I do see myself as someone who has a lot of story ideas.

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in my own life, and sometimes they are inspired by mere moments.

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.

Whenever I write, I try and approach my stories from some kind of universal theme or idea or emotion.

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.