When it comes to character, is more complexity necessarily better? Robert McKee uses President Obama, and former presidents Bush and Nixon as examples of character complexity and how a life becomes a story.

Quotes of the Week

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

– Oscar Wilde

“You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril,
you find out who they really are.”

– Joss Whedon

“We observe, but it’s a mistake to copy life directly to the page.
Few individuals are as clear in their complexity and as well
delineated as a character.”

– Robert McKee