Robert McKee

Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality,

— Robert McKee

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

To connect to people at the deepest level, you need stories.

— Robert McKee

Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing.

— Robert McKee

“If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.”

— Robert McKee

Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world.

— Robert McKee

To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.

— Robert McKee

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.

— Robert McKee

The universal erosion of values has lead to the universal erosion of story.

— Robert McKee

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

— Robert McKee

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

— Robert McKee

Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a…

— Robert McKee

Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.

— Robert McKee

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

Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.

— Robert McKee

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

— Robert McKee

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

— Robert McKee

“Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.…

— Robert McKee

Stories are how we remember; we tend to forget lists and bullet points.

— Robert McKee

Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination…

— Robert McKee

When people want to sound smart, they add syllables to words, words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to books. They try…

— Robert McKee

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

The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.

— Robert McKee

We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery.

— Robert McKee

“in comedy laughter settles all argument فى الكوميديا، الضحك ينهى أى جدل”

— Robert McKee