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I'm always interested in storytelling and whatever form that comes in.

I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.

I think writers from both East and West have long been fascinated by the ancient tales and the opportunity to reinterpret them.

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other thousands of years ago are still relevant now.

Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.