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Peter Guber Biography

Howard Peter Guber (born March 1, 1942) is an executive, entrepreneur, educator, and author. He is Chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment. Guber's most recent films from Mandalay Entertainment include The Kids Are All Right, Soul Surfer, and Bernie. He has also produced Rain Man, Batman, The Color Purple, Midnight Express, Gorillas in the Mist, The Witches of Eastwick, Missing, and Flashdance. Guber's films have earned over $3 billion worldwide and 50 Academy Award nominations.

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

Fans, Heart, Online, Technology, Turn, Viral

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

Emotional, Moving, Say, Somebody, Transportation, Want

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 filmmaking offers that potential.

Dream, Feet, Love, Offers, People, Swept

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

Audience, Body, Energy, Eye, Language, Technology

Today everyone, whether they know it or not, is in the emotional transportation business. More and more, success is won by creating compelling stories that have the power to move people to action. Simply put, if you can’t tell it, you can’t sell it.

Action, Creating, Emotional, Moving, Stories

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

Authenticity, Faked, Point, Positivity, Truth, Views

There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.

Ball, Home, Player, See, Winning

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

Audience, Audience Of One, Internet, Times

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

Easy, Everyone, Good, Positivity, Sound, Storytelling

The seminal elements of what makes a story great - challenge, struggle, resolution - are the same whether we're talking about story content for a movie such as 'Rain Man,' or telling a purposeful story to forge new business relationships or conclude a fruitful transaction, such as acquiring an NBA franchise.

Elements, Men, Rain, Relationships, Seminal, Struggle

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 to take 'oohs and aahs' and convert them to 0s and 1s and then convert them back to 'oohs and aahs. ' Narratives that work in social networks are the exchange of stories that are told well.

Analog, Back, Stories, Technology, The End Of The Day, Thinking

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 using the tool is a part of the process, right? You know: the knife cuts the steak, stabs the person, saves somebody from danger, cuts somebody out of a car.

Cutting, Gun, Hunt, Intention, Know, Party

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

Air, Expression, Feeling, Reading, Room

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

Flashdance, Midnight, Risk, Strength, Willingness

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

Aligned, Feet, Heart, Intention, Shining

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

Heart, Hearts, Interested, People, Portal

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

Art, Liberal, Relevance, Social, Tends

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

Cake, Icing, Icing On The Cake, Stories

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 went back and looked at everything - Why do I like reading the same stories over and over and over again? What, was I some kind of nincompoop? No - the narrative gave me connection with my mom.

Back, Book, Kind, Know, Mom, Reading

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.

Ball, Dad, Games, Mom, People, Storytelling

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