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 reje...”

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

“When talented people write badly, it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove of they're driven by an emotion they must express. Whe...”

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

“Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.”

“No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.”

“I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be.”

“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 '...”