"The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself."

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Source : Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.27, Harper Collins

Robert McKee

#Stories Quotes #Talent Quotes #Materials Quotes

“As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers?”
“To be married in our profession is not an easy thing. Theres too many beautiful people around, very interesting people. Its just a matter of really having-being patient and probably having the capacity and the faith of falling in love with your own wife again. That happens to me.”
“Seek wealth, it's good.”
“I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.”
“I don't think President Obama has been that revolutionary in reaching out to ethnic communities. President Reagan did a lot for the black community that people don't realize.”
“There are things I've kept over the years and then someday I might pull up a program of some tune that I've done and I go "Wow, I know what to do with this now".”
“Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental.”
“Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this”

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