“To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be elementary, simple. Good and evil, the antagonists of all great drama in some guise, must be believably personalized. The moral ideals common to all humanity must be upheld. The victories must not be too easy. Strife to test valor is still and will always be the basic ingredient of the animated tale, as of all screen entertainments.” StillsAgeHumanityEvilEasySimpleCommonMoralAudienceVictoryDramaIdealsTestsEntertainmentMythScreensTalesFairyGood And EvilTreatmentIngredientsLegendsFairy TaleStrifeAnimatedValorGuiseAntagonistPersonalized Author:Walt Disney
“The scariest thing about screening a comedy ... if you screen a drama, you know, there's no real way to tell in real time if people are enjoying it or not. But in a comedy, it's like, if people aren't laughing, it's sort of scary.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayRealEnjoyLaughingComedyDramaScaryScreensScreening Author:Tim Heidecker
“Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.” ShouldMindBelieveHumansFilmLeftI BelieveBitsAudienceDramaHorrorHollywoodTerrorI Believe InScreensRelatedDullLengthEnduranceAnticipationBangsLeft OutBladder Author:Alfred Hitchcock
“The most dramatic moves I have made as an actor have been from stage to screen and from sitcom to drama.” Has BeensMadeMovingActorsStageDramaScreensDramaticSitcom Author:Jasika Nicole
“In professional wrestling, I think that they want you to be bigger than life. It's almost like an over-acting type thing - whereas on the big screen, you're 35 feet and they've got a close-up of you to put it on the screen in the movie house. At 35 feet, it's more subtlety than the overboard drama that we do in pro wrestling.” ThinkingWantBigsHouseActingFeetTypeDramaBiggerScreensWrestlingSubtletyOverboardBig ScreenPro WrestlingBigger Than LifeProfessional Wrestling Author:Kevin Nash
“Only comedies can get you that engaged in a movie, dramas people just sort of sit there and eat their popcorn and nothing really happens, they might cry a little bit, but that's it. Horror movies are talking at the screen, guys are elbowing each other, laughing at each other because they got scared. That's the beauty of a horror movie.” PeopleLittlesMightHappensGuyBitsTalkingLaughingComedyCryDramaHorrorLittle BitScaredScreensEngagedPopcorn Author:Bruce Campbell
“I writhe when I see myself on the screen. I'm such a dreadfully clumsy hulking image. I say to myself, "Why doesn't he get off? Why doesn't he get off?" I mean, I look like such an idiot. Some fat awkward thing dredged up from some third-rate drama company. I must stop thinking about it, otherwise I shan't be able to go on working.” ThinkingLooksMeanAbleCompanyGoes OnDramaThirdsRateScreensFatsIdiotAwkwardClumsy Author:Peter Sellers
“I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed.” FormLeftWrittenDramaScreensVulgarLeft Handed Author:William Monahan
“I really like the "two is better than three" line. People ask me is this drama or comedy? I just think the more colors you have to a film the better. The more genres, the more people will like it. I like relating to the whole general speaking public. The script itself is 99 pages but the novel it is based on is 600. I had to leave a lot of stuff out of the script. I had a limitation of what I could present on the big screen.” PeopleThinkingTwoWholeBigsFilmThreeAsksStuffLinesNovelComedyColorDramaPagesScriptsScreensLimitationGenreAsk MeBig Screen Author:Tommy Wiseau
“I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, "What did they teach you?" And she said, "They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room." I'm happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I've never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I'm told to say.” SaidSchoolAmericaGirlRoomsTeachLaughingTaughtGoes OnDramaEmptyEnglandScreensBurningCandleEmpty RoomsCandles Burning Author:Quentin Crisp
“Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaning” PowerfulVisionDramaSceneScreensParadesExploding Book:The Road to Gandolfo: A Novel Source: The Road to Gandolfo: A Novel
“How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.” PeopleThinkingWellsKidsCertainBornActingQualityDramaUnderstoodSellsScreens Author:Joan Chen
“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