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.

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

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

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.

Stories are the currency of human relationships.

The most amazing travellers were to humble to write about it

I'm not very comfortable being an actorvist so to get to do something that I believe in is a much more comfortable way for me to be political.

All in green went my love riding

When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more.

In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself. The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace.

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.

Contrary to popular thinking, being worthy isn't something you earn, it's something you recognize.

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe you can have both.

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.