Top 66 Quotes & Sayings by Robert McKee - Page 2

It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value.

Ninety percent of what we create is not our best work.

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

Aristotle said time is a measure of change, and this movie is about changing in time, through time, while remaining the same person. That's a philosophical paradox and a moral dilemma. But 'Casablanca' says it's possible. You can have both. That's what it means. And that's my wish for you: that you would have both.

I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be.

The students realize that it's their life I'm talking about: it's out of balance, they're struggling to put it into balance. How are they going to do it?