Robert McKee Quotes

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?' and if the answer matters, you've got your answer . . . Absolute occurrence is irrelevant. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

Facts do not constitute truth.

I think the reality is important anyway.

Reality is a question of perspective.

Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.

I've learned to write the truth. But to do that, I had to figure out what the truth was-and I had to realize that the truth isn't always the same for everyone. I had to realize that my truth may not be the same as your truth.

There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.

There are many levels of truth.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

You're really looking for the truth of what the piece is about. And that's going to be different for different people.

Sometimes the truth is more than the sum of the facts.