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Robert McKee On The Art of Story & Why Stories Matter

The Rich Roll Podcast

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The Ingmar Bergman of Writing About Writing

I was a busy screenwriter in Hollywood. I sold every screenplay, I optioned every screenplay I wrote. One of them I've optioned recently again for the fifth time. And it's still been re-off. Yeah, they have people love it, people love it but they don't make it. Well the television that I wrote got made and so I could see my work on screen...but not Ingmar Bergman who in my judgment is the greatest screenwriter in the history of the movies. So I did what my instincts led me to do which is to become the best at what I can do. That's why I write about writing because I love doing it and it

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