Drama Quotes

I think there's definitely a way to tell a story, to also look at marriages that are working, but find drama from what's challenging them. That's what I think, certainly, 'Parenthood' is kind of about: the unexpected things that come up in your life that challenge you as a man, as a woman, as a husband and a wife, and as a parent. Jason Katims

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Grade 9: I was too small for football, too shy for drama class, but I did have a passion for music. And so, with a mouth full of braces (and a glorious mullet), I accepted that the trombone would be a fantastic scholastic counterpart to my extracurricular loves: country music, and the guitar. Jason McCoy

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I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach. Jason Reitman

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From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest screenwriters of all time. He has ability to match pathos and comedy and drama and then turn it all on a dime. If you're going to make a series based on dialogue, you can't find much better than Woody Allen. Jason Reitman

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Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh. Jason Robert Brown

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'Blueprint 3' is made up of songs, but it's also a commentary on the idea that in order for rap to survive, we have to stretch out the drama. We have to stretch out the audience. It can't be this narrow - we have to stretch out the point of view. Jay-Z

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I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there. Jay Baruchel

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In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama. Jean-Claude Van Damme

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Everyone sees drama from his own perspective. Jean-Marie Le Pen

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I love doing drama as much as I love doing comedy. Jean Smart

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If it's a drama or comedy, it doesn't matter to me. I just want to like the writing. Jean Smart

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I think once you do the unexpected, and you take the viewers to a position of discomfort about being able to rely on characters surviving, then it does completely affect the way in which the drama is viewed. Jed Mercurio

You can have characters that say one thing and do another, and in certain kinds of drama, you can't get away with that because the audience will become confused - or certainly, the commissioners will become confused and tell you to stop doing it! Jed Mercurio

One of the things I learned on medical drama 'Bodies' was that actors can't play ambiguity. Jed Mercurio

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Part of me isn't that interested as a person and a viewer in people's personal lives. I'm much more interested in what people do in the workplace and what goals they set themselves. I guess that's why I write a lot of precinct drama. Jed Mercurio

When 'Line of Duty' started on BBC2, there was a feeling that it couldn't ever become a big show because the BBC2 drama budget is much smaller, and a returning cop series would take away from the Stephen Poliakoff/David Hare stuff that they love to commission. Jed Mercurio

I write what I call precinct drama, and I tend to write things set in the workplace. Having an institution which gives a workplace its distinctive identity is really important to creating something which feels different. Jed Mercurio

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I didn't study writing or drama or anything like that... that was not really a viable route for me. Jed Mercurio

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In 'Bodies,' we had a lot of gore because it was a medical drama. The gore was authentic. Jed Mercurio

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British drama can compete with America creatively. But the two systems are very different. Jed Mercurio

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People tend to create drama and make things far worse than they are in reality. Jen Sincero

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