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.

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.

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

Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

Either you suffer& die or you choose to fight& rebirth until dreams cometh true and reach you home.

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.

I think that's the strength of photography - to decide the decisive moment, to click in the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again.

When I have meetings scheduled so tight that I can't go to the loo, that's where I draw the line!

It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body.

At some point in life you have to face your fears.

I might be the only chick in the group, but that didn't make me the damsel in distress.

The creative process is different from the traditional production and work-flow process. It is not so linear.

The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.