"Story is about originality, not duplication" — Robert McKee
"Story is about originality, not duplication"
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Robert McKee
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54 Quotes by Robert McKee
Robert McKee has 54 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else,…
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A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the…
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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…
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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…
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Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency…
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When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to…
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More Duplication Quotes
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one of 18 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication…
— Theodor Adorno
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I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final…
— Edward Weston
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated…
— Umberto Eco
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Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and…
— Clyde Butcher
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The shapes and markings of Felix and Mickey, perhaps more than Oswald, have similarities, but when you are using such…
— Ollie Johnston
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We are reorganizing in order to eliminate duplication and redundancy.
— Herb Caen
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We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The…
— Jack Gilbert
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In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has…
— Helen Gahagan Douglas
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Only you can be you. God designed each of us so there would be no duplication in the world. No…
— Rick Warren
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An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being,…
— Salvatore Quasimodo
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
— Susan Sontag
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I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the…
— Alan Parsons
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