Quotes by : Robert McKee

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience,....

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

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

Curiosity is the intellectual need to answer questions and close open patterns. Story plays to this universal....

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

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

All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.

We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did....

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

Quality storytelling inspires quality dialogue.