Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who ar….

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….

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 filmmakin….

My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read 'em over and over and over again. And you know what I learned from that? I wen….

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..

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 gam….

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….

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!.

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

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

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

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….

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….

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….

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

Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it..

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….

A gun can be dangerous. But a gun can protect you, you can hunt for food with it - you know, the tool itself is a tool. The intention of the party us….

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….

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….