Topic: Robert Mckee

Writers Make Sense Out of Chaos

Big Think - 462 days ago
Do you think our culture is getting better or worse at telling stories? Oh, in terms of the skill of executing stories, I would say we're getting better. For example, I mentioned the series, ?Damages,? and in fact there was just ...

Grindhouse: A box office failure?

Helium - 469 days ago
Grindhouse is defined in the Urban Dictionary as: Blades of Glory ($22.5 million and 3 stars), Meet the Robinsons ($16.7 million and 2 stars), and Are We The three films that beat out Grindhouse for the top spot had much ...

How to write for the movies

Helium - 469 days ago
After reading an excerpt from Steve Martin's new memoir in the February Smithsonian Magazine, I was astonished to learn that it took him ten years to perfect the effortless lunacy he projected in his 1976 appearance on Saturday Night Live . Here ...

Storytelling in a Digital World

Big Think - 500 days ago
Question: Are the best screenwriting opportunities in television? Robert McKee: Absolutely. Robert McKee: No, I can't say that for sure because stories are a metaphor for life and as a result, you're really saddled with life. And so, I don ...

Entrepreneurs: The Silver Screen Beckons

Forbes - 843 days ago
The teacher was Robert McKee, a screenwriting instructor who has taught Pixar's John Lasseter and Akiva Goldsman, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of A Beautiful Mind, The Da Vinci Code and many other movies. The film business has been intriguing to me for ...

How to Find Happiness As a Writer

eHow - 952 days ago
You can find plenty of happiness as a writer. Follow your interests and hobbies when choosing the path of your writing career, and the work will be a lot more fulfilling.. Belief in yourself and your talent is the only way to ...

Screenwriting guru McKee says Hollywood is finished

AFP Global Edition - 1103 days ago
If screenwriting guru Robert McKee has the plot right, Hollywood is the villain in the piece and TV is the hero. It's all in TV," he told AFP.Undisputably one of the globe's top story-masters, the 60-something former actor, theatre-director ...

An Introduction to Screenwriting Books

Suite 101 - 1302 days ago
Syd Field and Robert McKee are the most popular screenwriting authors and so here is a guide to some of their most useful books.. Four Screenplays by Syd Field is very different to Screenplay in that it takes four films, Thelma and ...