I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical comedy, I will do it. But whatever the joke needs at that particular time, is where I'm dedicated to. I'm not into beating somebody down and beating myself up. I don't do insults and things like that. I don't do it - I'm a storyteller.
When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.
Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.
I consider myself Istanbul's storyteller. My subject matter is my town. I consider it my job to explore the hidden patterns of my city's clandestine corners, its shady, mysterious places, the things I love.
Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me.
I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.
The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.
First and foremost, I'm an oral storyteller - I'll make a poetic choice over a grammatical choice every single time.
I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!
My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.