“I grew up doing plays - I went to a stage school after school - and it's always something that I've wanted to do, but, in a weird way, if you do television and film and you didn't go to drama school and don't have a theatrical background, it's hard to get your foot in the door. In the same way that it is for theater actors to get into television and film. There's a weird prejudice that goes both ways.” SchoolFilmDramaPrejudiceTheatricalAfter School Author:Christian Cooke
“I think there's been a gigantic shift in the way we talk to each other, and the way that we communicate with each other. So as a filmmaker, the stuff's always been really interesting to me, and I sort of considered a lot of my films horror films, the ones that were relationship dramas, because I feel like it was very easy to look at modern communication and the Internet and cell phones and all that stuff as horror movies, basically.” ThinkingFilmEasyInterestingModernCommunicationInternetDramaHorrorCommunicateFilmmakerCell PhoneReally InterestingHorror Film Author:Joe Swanberg
“I actually find in America, there's a slight snobbery about actors who go back and forth between big heavy dramas and popcorn fare. That always intrigues me, because that doesn't exist in the same way in Britain. And I imagine it would be worse. In terms of the sort of class, and the sort of snobby, slightly on the back-foot thing Britain has. But it's much more prevalent in America. I'm really intrigued by it. I don't know why that is. But I'm aiming to break down those barriers by being in a Shakespeare film and a Smurfs film within six months of each other.” FilmTermBreakImagineDramaBarriersBreaking DownIntriguedSmurf Author:Alan Cumming
“The acting I got into by doing what we call pantomime, when I was sixteen. And, there were loads of very pretty girls in the show. I realized; I found out very early on, that the lead comic gets the girl. So, that was cool. When I went to university, I studied Economic Social History. And drama. That kind of got me into it. My main passion was to make films. It was never to be an actor. At that time, there weren't many opportunities for a working class Scottish actor. It was kind of an English thing. And it required a certain mannered cerebral acting style that I couldn't relate to.” KindFilmGirlPassionOpportunityActingEconomicStyleDramaI RealizedComicWorking ClassScottishPretty Girl Author:Peter Mullan
“I consider myself a 'local' actor in France. I started out in France, I went to drama school in France and the French film community was very welcoming to me when I was a young actress.” SchoolFilmYoungActorsCommunityDramaActressesLocalsWelcomeFrance Author:Diane Kruger
“As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.” WantFilmActorsDramaRelated Author:Eric Bana
“Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.” FilmDramaOffersOriginalsOperationsAmusementCarnivals Author:David Mamet
“I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.” FilmDramaColourBollywood Author:Brad Pitt
“I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.” FilmComedyDramaHorrorHorror Film Author:Sam Raimi
“I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.” BookCharacterFilmArtistLiteratureVisionPaintingDramaThemeGreat Character Author:Ezra Taft Benson
“There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.” FilmDramaShotsEcstasyCompositionTexture Author:William Shatner
“My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.” EndsRunningFilmFictionFantasyDramaTasteLowsScience FictionBudgets Author:Michael Sheen
“Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.” ShouldBookFilmReadingRoomsRelationshipDramaShould HavePianoLiving RoomPiano PlayingFilm Music Author:Igor Stravinsky
“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
“...it was the arts, those noble expressions of the human spirit that are communicated through literature, dance, song, film, drama, painting and sculpture, among the many other such creative means, that helped articulate the sufferings of [these] people that were heard around the globe.” PeopleHumansMeanArtFilmSpiritSufferingSongLiteratureCreativeHeardPaintingExpressionDramaNobleGlobesSculptureHuman Spirit Author:Bill Cosby
“In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top” StillsRunningFilmComedyTelevisionDramaGenre Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar
“All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.” HumansWellsMightFilmFictionSituationNovelEventsHuman NatureDramaTiedDocumentariesGreat FilmGreat Novels Author:Jeremy Northam
“I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.” GivingCharacterActionFilmDramaAction Films Author:Taylor Lautner
“I love doing comedy and I love watching comedy... Im more inclined to go watch a Seth Rogen film than a serious Oscar drama.” FilmWatchesComedySeriousDramaOscars Author:Phoebe Tonkin
“Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live, in a spirit of humility and respect for the facts and for history. What as the meaning of ROME, OPEN CITY? We were emerging from the tragedy of the war. We had all taken part in it, for we were all its victims. I sought only to picture the essence of things. I had absolutely no interest in telling a romanticized tale along the usual lives of film drama. The actual facts were each more dramatic than any screen cliche.” WorldTryingWarFactsFilmSpiritInterestCitiesTakenHumilityDramaConsciousEssenceTragedyVictimDeterminedScreensTalesDramaticEndeavorRomeUsualClicheEmerging Author:Roberto Rossellini
“I think it would be really fun to film a drama in a foreign country. If the opportunity presents itself, I want to film a Chinese production.” IfsThinkingWantCountryWould BeFilmOpportunityFunDramaProductionsChineseForeign Countries Author:Lee Min-ho
“When I was making these damned pictures, I never knew about film noir. If you had asked me about it then, I probably would have pointed to something like Bill Wellman's The Ox Bow Incident, the best Western I ever saw and very much in the style of film noir I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross that defines what kind of drama it is.” IfsKindStoriesCareFilmLyingEmotionSawsMysteryStyleDramaCrossesBillsWesternDon't CareI Don't CareBowsIncidentsNoirJuliusFilm Noir Author:Samuel Fuller
“The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!” PeopleLongFilmDramaTalesLive LifeFairyFairy TaleScenariosBourgeoisOpium Author:Dziga Vertov
“I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.” FeelsMomentsPastFilmInterestingDramaHollywoodDocumentariesHollywood MoviesDocumentary Films Author:Ken Burns
“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