Paul Heyman Quotes

It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'

Most people don't know how to tell stories.

The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't believe you if they don't know what your saying, and they can't know what you've saying if they don't listen to you, and they won't listen to you if you're not interesting, and you won't be interesting until you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly.

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

I want people to hear what I have to say, and I want to be able to get a lot of points across.

Communication and communication strategy is not just part of the game - it is the game.

I know what to say, how to say it, how to bring profile to the issues I care about and people want to listen to me.

This is the great thing about TV is that when you discover certain strengths in an actor, you can then begin to exploit them in really fun ways.

Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to do in books.

Effective storytelling is the key to getting users to understand and adopt your product as well as imperative to recruiting team members and future investors.

I tell a good story.

I was focused as a writer and marketing and a character. I was like Jim Carrey.

A decade in advertising exposed me to plenty of schemers and backstabbers. But honestly, advertising is wonderful training for fiction. Writing novels is much easier if you've ever tried to write a billboard.

I was going to be a writer, and that turned into journalist. And then that turned into a career in children's literature, which turned into early childhood education, which turned into psychology, which turned into premed, which turned into nursing school, which turned into communication, which turned into marketing and advertising.

For screenwriting, when you're writing, you're talking to hundreds - hundreds of people who might be interpreting what you're saying. When you're writing a comic book, you're really only talking to the artist.

If you want to convey a message, you must do so in an enjoyable format.

Dialogue is what I like doing. It's what I am good at doing.

I try to make what I say count.

As an actress, I am always interested in the new writers.

A ten- or twelve-page story seems too easy, which is a funny thing to say considering that writing a decent short story is devastatingly difficult. Yet it still seems easier than a novel. You can turn a short story on a single good line - ten pages of decent writing and one good moment.

I get to watch stories I wrote brought to life by the most brilliant actors in cinema.

The average billboard has no more than eight words. It takes a lot of effort to make a beer, rice, or shampoo seem special in eight words.

I want to tell stories of impact.

With fiction, I've grown to really love the challenge of lying, the challenge of telling a good tale that isn't truthful, and working with performers is endlessly fascinating. You know, learning what a good performance is, how to get a good performance, how much or how little you need to create emotion or to create character.

It's important to tell meaningful stories and to find new ways to communicate those stories to people.