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Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now.

As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.

Sadly, I haven't been able to find my earliest stories, but the impact of being told by someone important to me that I could do something special is immeasurable.

Every story I do is about people. It's my survival instinct - one person, one story.

When I was a little kid, I told stories.

I have written stories since I was a child.

I started writing stories in my spare time.

I've been writing stories, in one form or another, since I was a kid.

I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.

I always assumed people wanted to hear me tell stories, but then I had 'The Sunset Tree.' It turned out, my own stories were the ones that registered with people the hardest.