Robert McKee Quotes

Everyone thinks they've got a book inside them.

A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied were the spider and the novelist - their lives hanging by a thread spun out of their own guts. But in some ways I think writers of fiction are the creatures most to be envied, because who else besides the spider is allowed to take that fragile thread and weave it into a pattern? What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it to create some semblance of order.

I get to draw what I like to draw, basically people hangin' around, and write very humanistic kinds of situations and characters. But I do also like to draw adventure stories - more in terms of drawing them than writing them - and letting my imagination go wild.

Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror.

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

I wanted to express myself more fully through writing and directing. It just feels like a package deal. Anytime you create anything, you try to exert mastery over your world.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

Every man is an artist.

Everyone has a creative impulse, and has the right to create, and should.

I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow.

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.

Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.

I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.