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Robert McKee, né en 1941 aux États-Unis, est un professeur d'écriture créative. Un grand nombre de scénaristes hollywoodiens s'inspirent de ses travaux et de ses idées. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. janvier 1941
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Robert McKee: Citations en anglais

“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.”

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Source: Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.”

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“True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.”

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Source: Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.”

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Source: Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.”

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Source: Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.”

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Source: Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.”

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Source: Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.”

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Source: Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“(…)while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also true that the unlived life isn't worth examining.”

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Source: Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“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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Source: Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“Dialogue concentrates meaning; conversation dilutes it.”

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Dialogue: The Art of Verbal Action for Page, Stage, and Screen