Robert McKee: Write the Truth

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🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is Robert McKee.

He is an author, lecturer, and consultant who has dedicated his life to educating and mentoring screenwriters, novelists, playwrights, poets, documentary makers, producers, and directors through his Story Seminars.

He is the author of Story, Character, Storynomics, Dialogue, and his latest, Action, books that help artists write their truth. Since 1984, more than 100,000 students have taken McKee’s courses around the world. Alumni include Peter Jackson (writer/director THE LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy, THE HOBBIT), Jane Campion, Andrew Stanton, Geoffrey Rush, Paul Haggis, Akiva Goldsman, William Goldman, Joan Rivers, Meg Ryan, Rob Row, David Bowie, Kirk Douglas, John Cleese, Steven Pressfield, Russell Brand, and the writers of Pixar (creators of TOY STORY 1, 2, & 3, FINDING NEMO). His former students include over 60 Academy Award Winners, 200 Academy Award Nominees, 200 Emmy Award Winners, and 1000 Emmy Award Nominees. To find out more about Robert and his seminars, visit mckeestory.com.

You can follow him on YouTube @RobertMcKeeSTORY , on Facebook @RobertMcKeeSeminars , and on Twitter @McKeeStory

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0:00.0	This is The Danger Close Podcast, beyond the books of me, Jack Cull.
0:17.6	Welcome to The Danger Close Podcast, an Iron Cloud original presented by Navy Federal Credit
0:21.7	Union.
0:22.7	My guest today is the legendary Robert McKee, and I'm going to read a little bit of his bio
0:28.1	from his latest book here.
0:30.3	It is called Action, and it was such an honor to have him as a guest on the podcast.
0:35.6	And here it is, a full bright scholar and member of Final Draft Hollywood Hall of Fame.
0:40.2	He is the world's most sought after author and lecturer known for his seminars, webinars
0:44.7	that provide writers with crucial insight on the story universe.
0:49.0	His writing seminars have earned him an international reputation, the corner storms of his teaching
0:53.2	our character, story nomics and dialogue translated into 23 languages.
0:58.0	These singular works have defined how we talk about the art of storytelling.
1:02.0	Over the last 35 years, he has mentored screenwriters, novelists, playwrights, poets,
1:06.4	documentary filmmakers, producers, and directors.
1:09.2	The list of McKee alumni include winners of over 60 Academy Awards, 200 Emmy Awards, 100
1:15.4	Writers Guild of America Awards, as well as recipients of the Pulitzer, Booker, Olivier,
1:20.0	and other major pros and playwrights.
1:24.0	Story was his first book right here, dialogue character, and his latest out right now is
1:30.9	action.
1:31.9	And I do want to read one passage, and I do read this at the end and ask him his thoughts.
1:37.3	But here it is.
1:38.8	Authoritative personalities like Plato fear the threat that comes not from an idea, but from
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