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Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes.
You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.
When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
If you ever watch police chases on, like, helicopter cams, they very quickly become nightmarish when you start to see the police coming in from the edge of the frame. I always find that terrifying.
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
