There are no rules, but you break them at your peril..

Today everyone, whether they know it or not, is in the emotional transportation business. More and more, success is won by creating compelling storie….

Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apa….

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 st….

Being true to yourself involves showing and sharing emotion. The spirit that motivates most great storytellers is 'I want you to feel what I feel,' a….

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking..

Nothing replaces being in the same room, face to face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions..

Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked..

The Internet is an audience of one, a million times over..

Stories aren't the icing on the cake; they are the cake!.

Use state-of-the-heart technology online and offline to turn listeners into viral advocates and customers into raving fans..

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..

A German shepherd dog could walk in the office with a script in his mouth, and if that script was really good, they'd buy the script..

Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already….

I've worked with Jack Warner and Jimmy Stewart - and Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and Johnny Depp twice. I've had dinners with Fred Astaire and Cary Gr….

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 ….

Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribe….

At Casablanca we did 'Midnight Express,' 'Flashdance,' and 'The Deep.' My willingness for risk has always been my strength..

The seminal elements of what makes a story great - challenge, struggle, resolution - are the same whether we're talking about story content for a mov….

The portal into people's hearts is being interested in them..

I think any new technology that helps connect and create social cohesion is great. But at the end of the day, you and I are analog creatures. We have….