As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.
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All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.
As a child, I got bored with my surroundings, so I would be another person for a little while.
I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.
As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.
What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.
I come from a family of storytellers. Growing up, my father would make up these stories about how he and my mother met and fell in love, and my mother would tell me these elaborately visual stories of growing up as a kid in New York, and I was always so enrapt.
As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.
When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all my cousins, my brother, and my best friends in it. I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. It was like make-believe to me.
In all honesty, I didn't love reading when I was a kid. I'd rather be running around in the woods or doing my best to scare the pants off all the children in the neighborhood by pretending my house was haunted or making them play Bloody Mary in the bathroom.