Robert McKee Quotes
Top 56 wise famous quotes and sayings by Robert McKee
Robert McKee Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Robert McKee on Wise Famous Quotes.
When you do enough research, the story almost writes itself. Lines of development spring loose and you'll have choices galore.
A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.
The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for.
The only way to know the truth is to witness him make choices under pressure to take one action or another in the pursuit of his desire.
Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.
You do not keep the audience's interest by giving it information, but by withholding information ...
Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative. Write only what you believe.
It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value.
Of all the reasons for wanting to write, the only one that nurtures us through time is love of the work itself.
No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.
( ... )while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also true that the unlived life isn't worth examining.
Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.
The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.
Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.
When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.