In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core.

The best stories infuse wonder.

Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.

I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.

That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it

I wished I could spend the rest of my life... being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.

I went to school to be an actor in Canada and realized I hated auditions once I left, which is a huge problem if you want to get a part.

Assad must go. He's lost the legitimacy to govern.

It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man.

We were talking to shop owners or ordinary people who were living in these buildings now. A lot of the Olympic Villages were turned into housing.

If you're attacking your market from multiple positions and your competition isn't, you have all the advantage and it will show up in your increased success and income.

We need goals when the scoreline is zero zero

How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.