Miss the audience's heart as a filmmaker, and the only wallet that gets hit will be your own. That's because the heart is always the first target in story telling.

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.

At the same time that 'I' am the content of a relation, 'I' am also that which does the relating.

The Board needs to extend its insight and innovation lens via cognitive difference.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

At twenty every one is republican.

Every moment is travel - if understood.

By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.

The most important thing an artist can discover is a love of process.

People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.

Realize that true happiness lies within you.

We can see after 200+ years that the American model failed. It is not limited. It is totalitarian. And getting worse.