Robert McKee Quotes

The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put it out of my mind and get on with what I'm doing.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

I admire people who are creative.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

I do try to do high-impact work, and I try to think of ideas people haven't thought about that have broad implications, but I don't restrict myself to that. I try to work on things that I find interesting.

There are just two things you can do to win a Nobel prize - have a good idea and pursue it effectively.

Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel.

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Some people have just got a capacity for creativity that's unbelievable!

We have to understand that all geniuses have a crazy side to them.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

Creativity means believing you have greatness.

Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.

I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who are very clever - much cleverer than the discoverers - never originate anything.

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

Creativity is very self-indulgent.