“It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.” ComedyDramaExtremesGreat Comedy Author:Vince Vaughn
“The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and back again, changewhich suddenly dissolves into a moment of extreme catastrophe, a model tragedy because the fate of Europe was determined within this individual fate.” ArtMomentsIndividualHistoryFateDramaBattleModelsEuropeTragedyExtremesDeterminedTensionWorks Of ArtCatastropheBack AgainWaterloo Author:Stefan Zweig
“As a woman, she [Penelope Cruz] obviously has changed as she has become an adult. But, as an actress, I actually might say that she has not changed that much. And she has something great, especially in comedy, and she hasn't been exploited as much as she could be in comedy, but particularly in that mix between comedy and drama. She's got a very special quality about her. You can place her in very extreme situations, especially very painful situations, in terms of how her character interprets it. And sometimes, the deeper and more human that pain is, the better she is at it.” HumansSometimesCharacterPainTermQualitySituationComedySpecialChangedDramaAdultsPainfulDeeperExtremesActressesCruzPainful Situations Author:Pedro Almodovar
“I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes. I love taking a bunch of characters and it usually is a bunch of characters, and you throw something at them that's usually extreme, like a bag of money, or you send them out to explode a nuclear device on the surface of the sun. And those extremes are wonderful for drama.” CharacterFilmSunWonderfulHavensDramaExtremesSurfaceNuclearBunchBagsDevicesCustoms Author:Danny Boyle
“Before I write anything, before I create any assumption in my mind about what it's like to be in that world, I go out there first. I'm very drawn to darkness and light, very drawn to cop drama, because there are very few places besides war and murder and a homicide investigation where you see the extremes of human nature - the darkest crevices and cracks in what people do to one another.” PeopleWorldWritingMindFirstsHumansWarLightDarknessHuman NatureDramaMurderExtremesAssumptionCracksInvestigationCopLight And DarknessHomicideCrevice Author:Veena Sud
“I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort of blood-boltered thing, but it's also very funny, which is simply a matter of the playwright being alive and observant and entertaining, and understanding not only the world but what will play.” ThinkingWorldWritingRealMatterPlayUnderstandingAliveBloodDramaExtremesTragicEntertainingPlaywrightObservant Author:William Monahan
“You cannot dissociate birth from death, creation from destruction, good from evil. Thus any art is a form of drama standing between the two extreme poles of birth and death, just like life is drama. This is not sad, because to be alive means to be mortal, to pass through.” MeanArtTwoFormLife IsEvilAliveCreationBirthDramaArt IsStandingDestructionExtremesMortalsBirth And DeathTwo Extremes Author:Paul Virilio
“I think that the drama of people rising up demanding their own freedom is one that resonates very deeply with America. I think that President Barack Obama has tried and would like to find a way to relate to the Arab Spring, but I think he also wants to be, rightly, very careful that we don't take it over. It is very important that they own this. He is trying to influence it this way but without, "We're so never going to go to the extreme of Iraq and putting boots on the ground again."” PeopleThinkingWayWantTryingImportantAmericaPresidentInfluenceDramaSpringIraqCarefulExtremesBarackRelateRisingOver ItBootsVery DeepPresident Barack ObamaRising UpArab Spring Author:Thomas Friedman
“Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.” WritingFeelingsRealityLyingDramaEverydayExtremesFlatsExaggeration Author:Eugene Ionesco
“The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to tormentor, just as kids simultaneously light up our lives and drive us nuts. I was trying to capture that strange, bipolar quality of parenthood. For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.” WayTryingIdeasMomentsLightKidsParentEmotionQualityFocusOur LivesProduceStrangeDramaNormalExtremesParenthoodCaptureNutsSwingsPrimalBipolarLight UpBeing A ParentComforter Author:Emma Donoghue