Robert McKee
Robert McKee
Robert McKeeis a creative writing instructor who is widely known for his popular "Story Seminar", which he developed when he was a professor at the University of Southern California. McKee is the author of a "screenwriters' bible" called Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting. Online, McKee has a blog and a writers' resource website called "Storylogue"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
CountryUnited States of America
profound choices given
Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.
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In comedy laughter settles all arguments.
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Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.
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Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.
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No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.
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Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.
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A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy corners of the human psyche and society.
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No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.
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Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.
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Stories build cultures by answering the big questions.
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Aristotle said time is a measure of change, and this movie is about changing in time, through time, while remaining the same person. That's a philosophical paradox and a moral dilemma. But 'Casablanca' says it's possible. You can have both. That's what it means. And that's my wish for you: that you would have both.
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Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.
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Never sleep with anybody who has more problems than you do.
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Story is about originality, not duplication