Robert McKee
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Sep 22, 2026
Park HowellGUEST
Arizona State University shows up and says, we want you to teach a master's course in this.
Park HowellGUEST
I got a chance to sit down with the legendary screenwriting coach, Robert McKee, in his home in Connecticut and interview him for three hours for my podcast, even before I had a podcast.
Park HowellGUEST
And I'm like, This stuff works.
Park HowellGUEST
The magic of story works.
Jorge ArangoHOST
And so the writing process has that built into it, but totally strangely, uh, you'll never believe what I'm reading this week.
Jorge ArangoHOST
Uh, it's, um, a book by Robert McKee.
Jorge ArangoHOST
He wrote the book story and that's not what I'm reading.
Jorge ArangoHOST
I'm reading his book called dialogue on how to write dialogue.
Julie KlausnerGUEST
Yeah.
Julie KlausnerGUEST
I don't think Robert McKee, like, had a, you know, philosophy about that story-wise.
Julie KlausnerGUEST
But anyway, the, um, the, the, the lesbian...
Julie KlausnerGUEST
Like, the sapphic love affair, to me, was kind of like, I don't wanna say condescending, but it was definitely, like, um, a way of saying that, you know, if there's no guy, like, it's not really a threat.
Ross KenyonHOST
While Charlie is trying to do this, he has a fictional twin brother named Donald, also played by Nicolas Cage, who sees the success of his brother, Charlie, and comes to Los Angeles trying to become a screenwriter as well.
Ross KenyonHOST
And Donald... picks up the Robert McKee book called Story, which is a really classic and a good book on screenwriting that I've read and learned a lot from, and is going through a seminar with him trying to understand how do you produce a script that will sell, that can be turned into a movie format.
Ross KenyonHOST
Charlie is struggling desperately to write this film about orchids.
Ross KenyonHOST
And Donald, meanwhile, is loose, not that intelligent, seemingly just kind of a goofball, but is able to just put together a script that I believe he goes off and just sells it, which is something that Charlie is jealous of, given how much suffering writing causes him.
Hallerin Hilton HillHOST
It creates an engagement that's different than just it blowing by.
Hallerin Hilton HillHOST
And so I learned this from a great screenwriter by the name of Robert McKee when I was at his screenwriter's course in New York.
Hallerin Hilton HillHOST
And he was talking about having these rushes of insight, not as a veil or camouflage, but to invite people to experience the work deeply.
Hallerin Hilton HillHOST
So that they have a moment of discovery or a moment of interpretation.
John WooliscroftHOST
When Charlie Kaufman
Brian CottingtonHOST
stands up and says, what if you're trying to write a movie in which nothing happens? And Brian Cox as Robert McKee has this fantastic diatribe.
Brian CottingtonHOST
People fucking die every day.
Brian CottingtonHOST
People betray each other every day.
Brian CottingtonHOST
And the crazy thing is that whereas, you know, Wes Craven's New Nightmare, you had the real actors playing the real people, right? Like Heather Leggenkamp was playing herself, right? Robert Englund was playing himself.
Brian CottingtonHOST
Even Wes Craven was playing himself.
Brian CottingtonHOST
In this one, you have real people being played by Hollywood actors like Robert McKee, one of the greatest Hollywood screenwriters out there.
Brian CottingtonHOST
I have one of his books over here, the one that Donald was reading story because it was kind of required reading when John and I were in grad school.
Eric CalderonGUEST
Viacom at the time had really good health benefits and continuing education benefits.
Eric CalderonGUEST
I took Robert McKee's screenplay course paid for by MTV in 1995-1994.
Eric CalderonGUEST
I took... how to support and do technical fixing on like Macs.
Eric CalderonGUEST
So I was like learning how to like take apart computers.
Matt WittenGUEST
And, you know, I think those books are good.
Matt WittenGUEST
And I, at one point in my life, went to a talk by a guy named Robert McKee, who was famous for this thing that he did.
Matt WittenGUEST
And he gave a talk like for the whole weekend.
Matt WittenGUEST
I think it was like 20 hours he talked.
JosephHOST
I see movies that are, I don't, just so I had to go to school to learn how to write movies and I've been doing that journey for over 40 years.
JosephHOST
I studied screenwriting in 1986, I came back from Hawaii and I studied under Robert McKee who is the, he's basically the Bruce Lee of screenwriting.
JosephHOST
And he teaches at USC.
JosephHOST
But he had his own class on Western.
Richard OsmanHOST
There is a different grammar, and they watch it differently, and they're not expecting those beats.
Richard OsmanHOST
In the same way that, you know, movies became very, very y- y- you know, we understood exactly, you know, the Robert McKee story structure.
Richard OsmanHOST
We understand-
Marina HydeHOST
Yeah
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