Story is about originality, not duplication

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

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

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.

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.

Contentment is the foundation of true Happiness. The Happiness that comes from fulfilling desires can never be permanent.-RVM

Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.

Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.

I think ABC sort of hoped I would be really like Carol Burnett. I mean literally, I think.

The pleasure is our choice.

There is no obstacle too great, no challenge too difficult, if we have faith.

Constantly be aware and observing. Always seek to improve yourself and the team.

The pain doesn't go away. You just make room for it.

It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

The quality of mercy is not strained