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I like the story writing process. I usually use someone who has been trained for structure to take the story that I actually want, place those elements in the right places.

I care about narrative structure; I care about how stories unfold.

I do see myself as someone who has a lot of story ideas.

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

I always tell my students to seek out other writers as models, and though it took me years to heed my own advice, it really was life-altering when I found writers who wrote long stories, full of back story and side plots and sub-histories.

I write and draw from the gut. I often don't know what my stories are about until they're done.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get the projects that I get with the writers, the directors.

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.