Robert McKee explains how the difference between free will and destiny depends on your vantage point.

Quotes of the Week

“Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.”

– Anton Chekov
(Letter to Alexander Chekov, May 10, 1886

“I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing truly what you really felt, rather than what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things were which produced the emotion that you experienced. In writing for a newspaper you told what happened and, with one trick and another, you communicated the emotion aided by the element of timeliness which gives a certain emotion to any account of something that has happened on that day; but the real thing, the sequence of motion and fact which made the emotion and which would be as valid in a year or in ten years or, with luck and if you stated it purely enough, always, was beyond me and I was working very hard to get it.”

– Ernest Hemingway