"What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens."
- 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..."
"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. When talented..."
"All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant."
"No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much."
"Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time."
"Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression."
"Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society."
"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."