“The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen.” PeopleLightHappensOpportunityGreaterDramaHappeningsCamerasProductionsStudiosSettingSettings Author:Ann Macbeth
“I was quite straight-laced. I was quite academic until I was about 14 and then I went to boarding school where I had the opportunity to continue to be very academic, but got less interested in it and became more involved in acting. And then when I was applying for universities I used a couple of places on my UCAS form to apply for drama school without telling anyone... but didn't get into drama school. But that was the most rebellious thing I did.” SchoolFormUsedOpportunityActingCoupleInvolvedDramaUniversityAcademicRebellious Author:Carey Mulligan
“Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout your brain increase, weaving into your brain and body the wisdom of a life well lived, which allows you to stop living out of fear of disappointing others and being imperfect. Ageless living is courageous living. It means being undistracted by the petty dramas of life because you have enough experience to know what’s not worth worrying about and what ought to be your priorities.” KnowsWellsMeanEnoughBodyValuesOpportunityBrainWorryGrowingOughtDramaConnectionsIncreasePrioritiesCourageousImperfectPettyCompetenceGrowing OldDisappointingGrowing OlderWeavingLife Well LivedAgelessBeing Imperfect Author:Christiane Northrup
“There's very few directors I think in this industry that would pitch to a studio that they wanted to do a multi-layered almost at times existential high action, high drama surreal film that's sort of locked in his mind. And then have an opportunity to do that.” ThinkingMindActionWantedFilmOpportunityIndustryDramaDirectorsStudiosLockedExistentialSurreal Author:Christopher Nolan
“Any performer would love to have the opportunity to be able to express themselves in many different areas. If you feel confident in those areas, you would hope to have the opportunity to do them, whether it's drama, comedy, musical, or whatever your interests are.” IfsFeelsDifferentAbleOpportunityInterestComedyDramaAreasMusicalPerformers Author:Bryan Cranston
“What serialized cable dramas have given us is the opportunity to not simply tell the same story with slightly different words and different costumes, every week. people are really mining the ability of storytellers to tell a long form story that goes from A to Z, and to trust that an audience will follow that. If they miss it, over the course of the week, they can watch it online or buy the DVD. There are so many different ways of interacting with it. Storytelling in television is getting more complex and more nuanced.” PeopleIfsWayLongDifferentStoriesFormCoursesOpportunityGivenAbilityWatchesAudienceWeekMissingTelevisionDramaComplexesStorytellingDifferent WaysOnlineStorytellerCostumesCablesDvdsInteractingMining Author:Sarah Wayne Callies
“I do think opportunity breeds bravery. It's such a competitive profession, no one owes you anything, talent in itself is not enough. I went to drama school with so many great actors who are not doing it anymore and it's circumstantial.” ThinkingEnoughSchoolActorsOpportunityTalentDramaBraveryProfessionGreat Actors Author:David Oyelowo
“I've had a long association with the theater over the years but I had never produced a play and it was something that I'd always wanted to do.The movies moved away from dramas, and I think that I'm very excited by the opportunity to take smart writing that takes risks and see it on stage. It's exciting to see that engagement between the audience and the playwright.” ThinkingWritingYearsLongPlayWantedOpportunityAudienceRiskStageDramaSmartExcitingTheaterMovedExcitedEngagementAssociationPlaywright Author:Colin Callender
“I probably shouldn't do a straight drama. I'd probably ruin it. I don't know. But, I'd love the opportunity to try. I'm sure that every kind of filmmaker feels that they can do other genres of film and want to, and I feel the same way.” KnowsWayWantFeelsTryingKindFilmOpportunityCan DoDramaRuinsGenreFilmmaker Author:Steve Pink
“When 'Malcolm in the Middle' was over, I was looking for a drama more than a comedy...but if it was a comedy that came up, it would have to be as well-written as 'Malcolm' was, and it would have to be a different kind of character than I played on that show. That's harder to come by. In drama, there were more opportunities, more options for me, and when I read ('Breaking Bad'), it was just, 'Good night, Nurse! I'm going after this sucker!'” IfsWellsKindDifferentCharacterShowsNightOpportunityComedyWrittenMiddleDramaHarderNurseDifferent KindsSuckerGood NightWell Written Author:Bryan Cranston
“When I'm writing in my bedroom, in a bar, at my kitchen table or wherever, I'm conjuring it all up on the page. That's all well and good, but it is going to be a limited perspective at that point and time. Occasionally, what I write might read really well initially, but then you change your mind while hunting for locations when you discover settings which offer even better opportunities for drama or dramatic staging.” WritingMindWellsMightOpportunityPerspectiveDramaOffersPagesTablesBarsSettingSettingsDramaticKitchenHuntingBedroomLocationChanging Your MindConjuringKitchen TableStagingLimited Perspective Author:Quentin Tarantino
“A national crisis, a political convulsion, is an opportunity, a gift to the traveler. Nothing is more revealing of a place to a stranger than trouble. Even if a crisis is incomprehensible, as it usually is, it lends drama to the day and transforms the traveler into an eye witness.” IfsEyePoliticalOpportunityTroubleDramaCrisisStrangerWitnessTravelerRevealing Book:The Lower River Source: The Lower River
“The drama thing was something I've always wanted to do, but the opportunities are rare, and they have to be the right ones.” WantedOpportunityDrama Author:Jonah Hill
“I've always played down the drama in my films. In my main scenes, there's never an opportunity for an actor to let go of everything he's got inside. I always try to tone down the acting, because my stories demand it, to the point where I might change a script so that an actor has no opportunity to come out well.” TryingWellsStoriesMightFilmActorsOpportunityActingDramaSceneDemandLetting GoScriptsTone Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“People ask me all the time what it's like to work with my mother. I feel completely blessed because, first of all, this has given us an opportunity to enrich our relationship in ways we never could have imagined. Our time together is purely creative. It's unfettered by politics or the news of the day or aches and pains or family dramas or anything else. This time together is sort of golden and protected as being just creative time, which is heavenly.” PeopleWayFeelsFirstsPainTogetherMotherAsksOpportunityGivenCreativeDramaNewsBlessedGoldenAsk MeOur TimeHeavenlyProtectedOur RelationshipAcheFamily DramaTime TogetherAches And PainsOur Time Together Author:Emma Walton Hamilton
“How do you capture the drama of a Rembrandt painting in a movie? How do you feel that moment that they captured in two hours? I kind of fell into it and at one point, I decided I wanted to live an art life; I wanted to tell stories. I came to New York, and did what most people do - you become a PA and run and get coffee and pay your dues and learn until your opportunity comes.” PeopleKindArtMomentsRunningOpportunityHoursPaintingDramaCoffee Author:Antoine Fuqua
“I enjoy doing drama, and I enjoy doing comedy equally. They're both amazing to me, and it's such an honor to be recognized for both genres, and to have the opportunity to work on shows of such great caliber in both genres. So, you know, it's easy to do both.” OpportunityEasyEnjoyComedyHonorDrama Author:Alison Brie
“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
“Even if you want something so badly, without talent, you can't even get the opportunity. You remain as the chorus for the rest of your life.” IfsWantOpportunityTalentDramaWant SomethingRest Of Your LifeChorus Author:Cheon Eunbi
“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
“There seems to be more opportunities for old guys like me to do a little fighting and running because the lead characters also require a bit of depth and maturity and gravitas that one is likely to acquire doing drama all those years.” YearsLittlesCharacterSeemsRunningRomanceGuyFightingOpportunityBitsDramaDepthLike MeMaturityAcquireOld GuysLead CharactersGravitas Author:Liam Neeson