Are you motivated? Are you coherent? Is your intention aligned? Are your feet, tongue, heart and wallet congruent? That intention shines through.

I like chocolate because it's chocolatey!

I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it.

I'm not Mr. Debonair Suave. I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn't sound very hot to me.

The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts.

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

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 Grant.

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.

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.

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

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

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 story telling.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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