A storyteller puts a friendly arm around the audience, saying: “Let me show you something. - Robert McKee

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Stories are the currency of human relationships.

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The substance of story is the gap that splits open between what a human being expects to happen when he takes an action and what really does happen; the rift between expectation and result, probability and necessity. To build a scene, we constantly break open these breaches in reality.

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There is no such thing as a portable story. An honest story is at home in one, and only one, place and time.

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