At Casablanca we did 'Midnight Express,' 'Flashdance,' and 'The Deep.' My willingness for risk has always been my strength.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

With a purposeful story, you can change a "wanna be" to a "gonna be" to a "be".

Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked.

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.

Stories aren't the icing on the cake; they are the cake!

In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell a purposeful story will be your secret sauce.

Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it.

Nothing replaces being in the same room, face to face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential.

When you want to move somebody, you have to say to yourself: 'I'm in the emotional transportation business. I gotta move them, emotionally.

It's what we do, we continue on. Yet, what is the point? There is nothing ahead of us when there is nothing left of us.

The fundamental language of life is change. Life will keep on changing.

I'm a sucker for sad disco pop.

Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.

Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting.

Obviously I am not happy but they can throw what they want at me, I will come back stronger.

Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth.

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

[Saddam] Hussein maintains an active and aggressive nuclear weapons program.