“I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.” PeopleWantKindArtDifferentUsedAudienceComedyDramaHorrorMartial ArtsDifferent Kinds Author:Jet Li
“In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.” ThinkingTryingKindStoriesCertainAudienceWillingDramaDisbeliefParticipants Author:Edward Norton
“Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.” FeelsFeelingsHomeLightCertainAudienceLaughingComedyMinutesDramaPureSittingWeightPressureTherapyEscapism Author:Gabrielle Union
“What I love about the 'Alien' franchise is I would do all kinds of films - dramas, comedies, whatever - and every now and then I'd be in this science fiction blockbuster that would re-introduce the character and me to a lot of audiences around the world and allow me to go back and do the smaller films again, so it was really a good balance for me.” WorldKindCharacterFilmFictionAudienceComedyBalanceDramaScience FictionAll KindsAround The WorldAliensNow And ThenIntroducingBlockbuster Author:Sigourney Weaver
“Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.” WayStillsStarsAudienceComedyDramaMassProgrammingAdvertisers Author:Dick Wolf
“I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.” MadeMotivationalActorsMistakeAudienceCryDramaCriedMade A MistakeI Made A MistakeTheatre Actors Author:Frank Capra
“Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.” YearsFirstsPlaySchoolTogetherActingClassAudienceHeardFrontsSonDramaHigh SchoolFirst TimeMy SonAnniversaryDrama Class Author:Phil Lesh
“Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.” ArtNightActorsNatureAudienceDramaSeasonsEntertainmentTheatreCompareCinemaDramaticRitualContrastEvery NightTransport Book:Selected Essays of John Berger Source: Selected Essays of John Berger
“I am a successful lecturer in physics for popular audiences. The real entertainment gimmick is the excitement, drama and mystery of the subject matter. People love to learn something, they are 'entertained' enormously by being allowed to understand a little bit of something they never understood before. One must have faith in the subject and in people's interest in it.” PeopleLittlesRealMatterBitsInterestAudienceSuccessfulMysterySubjectsDramaLittle BitUnderstoodEntertainmentPhysicsExcitementHave FaithSubject MatterLecturerGimmicks Book:The Quotable Feynman Source: The Quotable Feynman
“The world has never before had as much drama as today. Radio, films, television and video inundate us with drama. But while these forms can engage or even enrage the audience, in none of them can the viewer’s response alter the artistic event itselfThat is why theatre is signing its own death warrant when it tries to play too safe. On the other hand, that is also the reason why, although its future often seems bleak, theatre will continue to live and to provoke.” WorldTryingReasonPlayHandsSeemsTodayFilmFormAudienceEventsTelevisionDramaSafeResponseRadioTheatreVideoArtisticReason WhyProvokingViewersSigningBleakWarrants Author:Girish Karnad