“ Curiosity is the intellectual need to answer questions and close open patterns. Story plays to this universal desire by doing the opposite, posing questions and opening situations. Robert McKee
“ Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, rid… Robert McKee
“ Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form. Robert McKee
“ You do not keep the audience's interest by giving it information, but by withholding information .... Robert McKee
“ Nothing moves forward in a story except through conflict. Writers who cannot grasp this truth, the truth of conflict, writers who have been misled by the counterfeit comforts of modern life into belie… Robert McKee
“ Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly. Robert McKee
“ We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic asylum. Indeed, that's how you know you're talking to a lunatic. Lu… Robert McKee
“ When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller. Robert McKee
“ Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives...Deus ex m… Robert McKee
“ Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion...Life on its own, without a… Robert McKee
“ Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul. Robert McKee
“ The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect. Robert McKee
“ Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a good story, of terrific characters and a world driven by your passion, cour… Robert McKee
