You don't know how to get yourself out of that deep water until you're in the deep water.

When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.

My point is is that if you are ever comfortable you're not growing and if, unless you are completely out of your depth, your creativity of whatever you are producing, you will never know how strong your stroke it.

When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it.

There's enough brackets put on us already, we don't need to bracket our creativity anymore than we do.

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

You don't know how to get yourself out of that deep water until you're in the deep water.