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Storytelling is about listening in any media.

Maybe storytelling belongs in audio - a short story is the length of a commute. That can be a sacred spot where you have the ear of the reader without having to compete with other media like games or TV.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away. They always have to pay for the story.

The telling of stories creates the real world.

Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start with a single premise and talk for hours - the notion of one story, ever-changing but never-ending.

Narrative is so rich; it's given up so much.