Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.

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.

Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.

Go to the root of the problems of people and discover ways to save them

Truly it is a blessed thing to love on earth as we hope to love in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure for ever there.

Tired is not a word in my vocabulary.

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.

Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.