Leaders use story to author the future.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.

Life is chaotic and meaningless, and you have to find your meaning. You must find the answer, you can't just live. That's the point of story: helping you find your meaning in life.

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.

Sometimes you can be touched by God, but not healed. Often when this happens, he is using your pain for a greater purpose.

Don't do something for recognition. Do it out of kindness. Do it because out of giving, it will make you whole and complete

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of government.

Having Plan B is good. But if your obsessed with Plan A, u'll never need backup. Become Obsessed with ur goals, ur focus will bring results.

I wanted to tell stories about people who didn't have the chance to tell their own.

Seeds can produce seeds Seeds can produce formations. Formations can produce seeds. Formations can produce formations.

Be the best, but get ready to be attacked. Only mediocrity is safe.

I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; also, at the same time, I'm just pleased to be anywhere.

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.

My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.