I didn't know how story worked. So, when writing the screenplay, people introduced me to the science of it. And I'm grateful. I'll probably use that information for the rest of my career, in terms of writing novels or writing stories. And then, of course, to help me live a better story, a more meaningful story

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

I think that every living person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality has a moment where he stops blaming the problems in the world on group thinking, on humanity and authority, and starts to face himself. I hate this more than anything. This is the hardest principle within christian spirituality for me to deal with. The problem is not out there, the problem is the needy beast of a thing living in my chest.

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

Great stories move through fear.

Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere.