“I failed to get into drama school, and my best friend told me I should do stand-up instead. I was always doing gags and voices, so he booked a gig for me without telling me. I only had four days to write it. I did a seven-minute set; the first four minutes were terrible, but the last two were amazing.” ShouldWritingFirstsTwoSchoolLastsVoiceFourMinutesTerribleDramaSevenMy Best FriendGigsGags Author:Marcus Brigstocke
“There are moments of levity. I feel like any great drama has moments of levity, or else it just becomes too hard to watch. 45 minutes of just pain and suffering is not enjoyable. We're trying to entertain people.” PeopleFeelsTryingHardMomentsPainSufferingWatchesMinutesDramaEnjoyablePain And SufferingLevity Author:Brandon Jay McLaren
“If you go to a therapist, they say, 'Are you sure? How do you feel about your wrinkles?' And I say, 'I don't know, because I don't really see them.' I see my hands, but I don't see my face, so it's not a torment. I only see it for five minutes in the morning when I brush my teeth! When you read women's magazines you always read about this drama of getting old, about anti-aging cream and plastic surgery and whatever else. But I think if you're independent, like I have grown to be, it's welcome.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsHandsFacesMorningFiveMinutesDramaIndependentAgingTeethWelcomeMagazinesPlasticCreamSurgeryBrushesTormentFive MinutesGetting OldWrinklesTherapistsPlastic Surgery Author:Isabella Rossellini
“As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.” ChildrenHappensMotherGrowing UpGrowingMinutesTelevisionDramaMountainBunchDancerVillageEstatesGreyHousingSwissSingle MotherBollywoodChildren Growing UpYorkshireGrowing ChildrenSari Author:Simon Beaufoy
“I don't think because a story has humor in it means it's brief. For some reason, people think anything that's 30 minutes is a comedy, comedies can be longer or shorter, so can dramas.” PeopleThinkingMeanReasonStoriesComedyMinutesDrama Author:Judd Apatow
“You have more of a responsibility to make the audience laugh. In comedy, we do have to say, "All right, it's been two minutes in the film. We need another laugh here." With drama, there's no pressure in that regard. It's a different kind of pressure, but it's not like we need to make someone laugh.” NeedsKindTwoDifferentFilmResponsibilityAudienceLaughingComedyMinutesDramaPressureRegardDifferent KindsNo PressureMake Someone Laugh Author:Jonah Hill
“As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?” PeopleIfsKindPersonsRealLastsHateHouseMinutesHeroDramaMovedTiredRefuseDullImperfectionGood PeopleHeartedReal PersonGood HeartedPerfection And ImperfectionKind Hearted Author:Hugh Laurie
“The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.” FormRichMinutesDramaSixtySixty Minutes Author:Salman Rushdie
“My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation.” YearsFirstsSchoolParentFiveGenerationsMinutesDramaTenMarriedFive YearsSixtyMy GenerationYale Author:Lewis Black
“I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.” PersonsFormSongThreeActorsHalfMinutesDramaMovieSurreal Author:Carrie Underwood
“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
“How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? No dramatic art form should be dictated and controlled by men whose training and instincts are cut of an entirely different cloth. The fact remains that these gentlemen sell consumer goods, not an art form.” MenShouldArtDifferentFactsFormCuttingMinutesDramaPaperTrainingRemainsSellsDancingInstinctMeaningfulConsumersDramaticGentlemanGoodsControlledTwelveFifteenToiletsRabbitsInterruptedProceedingToilet Paper Author:Rod Serling