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It's been a fascinating thing because we didn't really know how to write when we started South Park at all. It's been like, we've just sort of grown up a bit and it's amazing to just see how, if you take Butters and Cartman and put them in any scene, it works.

Along the way, I learned the key to launching a company. It's all about storytelling.

In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.

It took me many years to figure out how to structure a compelling story.

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.

I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I said, 'Walt Disney.' I wanted to make films. But I wasn't offered a camera. I was offered language. So I started telling stories in the theatre and then in my novels.

Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.