Quotes by : Robert McKee

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

Creativity is choice-making.

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual....

Nothing moves forward in a story except through conflict. Writers who cannot grasp this truth, the truth....

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind....

Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows....

Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create....

In comedy laughter settles all arguments.

Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.