I have enormous respect for nonhuman creatures.
These stories have become a kind of tool for us, as powerful as an ax or an arrow. Humans have been telling stories ever since we began talking. Because I'm just some guy coming from Wisconsin,' ' Parker says. 'I'm like, 'This is it, right? This has been the dream to come out here, and there's actors and there's writers, and there's directors out here, and the people that are true storytellers.
This was more than stage fright - Parker says what was at stake for him was pretty much everything. 'I was so nervous, I felt like I wanted to throw up,' he says. He was about to take the microphone in front of hundreds of people and tell a story he'd been working on his entire life. Not long ago, Shaun Parker was waiting offstage at a club in Hollywood. 'I liked the idea that I was meant to be something more,' Parker says. 'I always said that we're kind of the sum total of the decisions we make in life, and I just felt like I could very easily make the decisions that lead me away from that path of being more, whatever it is.' Natural-Born Storyteller? Shaun Parker moved from Menasha, Wis., to Los Angeles nearly 20 years after an illness in his family put his adolescent dreams on hold.
