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Robert McKee has 54 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.
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In comedy laughter settles all arguments.
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To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.
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Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must…
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If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're…
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Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination…
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A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and…
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In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.
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In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just…
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Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's…
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Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human…
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When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.
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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
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I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.
— Mark Twain
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
— Q'orianka Kilcher
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As an actor, you know when you've got great material in front of you. When you're working, you think, 'Is this the…
— Demian Bichir
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If you can tell a story well, you can move people to do something.
— Soledad O'Brien
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It thought about the magic that happens when you tell a story right, and everybody who hears it not only loves the…
— Katherine Hannigan
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So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them…
— Shaun Tan
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Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you…
— Chris Cleave
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If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.
— Tom Wilkinson
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Too often we blame ourselves for things that we really had no control over. We tell ourselves that if maybe we had…
— Superman
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Love how people can blame others for their problems!! It's always the same story: Well my daddy wasn't around, mama didn't do…
— Kayla Jenkins
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