Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
“Story isn’t a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality, our best effort to make… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
“(...)while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also true that the unlived life isn't worth examining.” — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
The students realize that it's their life I'm talking about: it's out of balance, they're struggling to put it into balance. How… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Don't be didactic - don't write about poverty. Write about poor people. When you dramatize their lives and let life and characters… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
We often put off doing something for as long as possible, then as we finally make the decision and step into the… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
“Beyond imagination and insight, the most important component of talent is perseverance—the will to write and rewrite in pursuit of perfection. Therefore,… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Life is chaotic and meaningless, and you have to find your meaning. You must find the answer, you can't just live. That's… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
“Nothing moves forward in a story except through conflict. Writers who cannot grasp this truth, the truth of conflict, writers who have… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality, — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Don't be didactic - don't write about poverty. Write about poor people. When you dramatize their lives and let life and characters be your… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
“If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.” — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
The universal erosion of values has lead to the universal erosion of story. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a good story,… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
