I was always very interested in the storytelling decisions that went into DIRECTING. It just HELD this real allure for me. You know, if we're doing a SCENE at a DINNER table, they weren't all shot the same. 'Why was the CAMERA here for one moment and there for another?'

My DAD did a wonderful feat of MEMORY and STORYTELLING by TAKING T S Eliot's 'Four Quartets' on the road in a one-man SHOW.

I always WANTED to MAKE the matches in some way different unique and interesting. I never wanted to have that BASIC match. I just wanted US to stand out in some way or another, whether it was storytelling or interesting WRESTLING moves.

I think most Irish PEOPLE are creative. WHETHER it's music, or DANCE, or... CERTAINLY STORYTELLING is in the blood.

We use music, cinematic STORYTELLING and very stylized backgrounds to create mood and atmosphere as 'Samurai Jack' travels an exotic LANDSCAPE. The ENVIRONMENT is a MAJOR character in each show.

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 was very lucky to GROW up in a household that really VALUED STORYTELLING and didn't find it FRIVOLOUS.

Tell a story. You don't have to do a thousand things in two minutes when you can do one just as good and still tell that story with your face or how you land or your REACTION. That's a lost art. STORYTELLING is a big part of our INDUSTRY, and if GIVEN time, you can do it properly.

For STORYTELLING purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't MEAN the PEOPLE have to be mean. I've never LIKED mean-spirited comedy.

I'm ALSO on the BOARD at Sundance, so I've SEEN witnessed first HAND the power of independent storytelling.

I GREW up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral STORYTELLING tradition. I was told STORIES, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as WELL.

I come from a big FAMILY where we TELL big STORIES. All we had was the STORYTELLING.

I really struggled, growing up, with READING and WRITING. I had a hard TIME to do that, but I was really passionate about STORYTELLING and about books.

I've ALWAYS been sort of DRAWN to storytelling, and I was always very PLAYFUL GROWING up.