To connect to people at the deepest level, you need stories.
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.
Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It’s how we see the world.
What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.
The mark of a master is to select only a few moments, but give us a lifetime.
To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.
If you can’t play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you’re condemned to hum the same old tune.
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 its cousin, depression.
In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.
The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn’t, the story fails.
Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.
In comedy laughter settles all arguments.
Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.
It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value.
Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.
The students realize that it’s their life I’m talking about: it’s out of balance, they’re struggling to put it into balance. How are they going to do it?
The universal erosion of values has lead to the universal erosion of story.
Leaders use story to author the future.