Robert McKee Quotes

I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.

All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.

Maybe more than a teller, I am a story listener. I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind. All of my films are a collection of small stories that have been told to me.

Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.

I appreciate hearing different stories. It inspires me.

I love telling stories, that's it. I love it. That's the word I would choose to describe what I love the most.

I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.

That's all that really matters in the end. Stories.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.

People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.

To survive, you must tell stories.

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.

Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail-signs of stories. He has to go on telling stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there's a story, it's all right. Even in his last moments, it's said, in the split second of a fatal fall - or when he's about to drown - he sees, passing rapidly before him, the story of his whole life.

All the truth in the world is held in stories.

You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.