All Robert McKee Quotes
- Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking. Bored
- In comedy laughter settles all arguments. All
- To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write. Creativity
- Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act,… Act
- If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum… All
- Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what… All
- 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
- In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility. Act
- In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and… Double
- 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. Cliche
- Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact. Clearer
- When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller. Concerts
- Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower. Action
- When talented people write badly, it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove of they're… Audience
- 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, of… Character
- 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. All
- Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites tampering, while polished,… Actor
- What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens. Fact
- We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic… Actually Thinking
- We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery. Discovery