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I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

All you have to do is just believe in what's there; then, the audience will, too.

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming aware of as they move into their teens.

In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.

I'm much more interested in allowing a story to happen, and people find whatever meaning is in there.

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

I like making stories and characters that people can relate to. I also like giving the audience a departure from whatever they're thinking about in their life and enjoying a show or a movie.

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.