The universal erosion of values has lead to the universal erosion of story.

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.

You have chosen the path of darkness.

In the '90s, you couldn't say the word 'nerd' to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn't have listened.

The invention of printing radically changed ways of thinking ¾ not just how things are communicated, but what can be thought

It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.

Teams that play together beat those with superior players who play more as individuals.

Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

There is a place of imagination, and it is entirely real.

If you're searching for "work/life balance" you'll always be disappointed because "balance" connotes a zero-sum equation.

With every death, a world is disappearing.