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“I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.”

People Sides Dark Drama Overcoming Desperate Heroic

Author:Jodie Foster

“I went to really good New York City public schools that had arts programs. So in junior high, I got into the drama department. From there, I went to a performing arts high school in New York City called Laguardia and I just kind of fell into the professional side by happenstance.”

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Author:Merritt Wever

“I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.”

Thinking Causes Sides Drama Bleak Flicker

Author:Amy Seimetz

“When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are unyielding, you have the makings of high drama.”

Ifs Different Character Sides Goal Results Achieve Drama Conflict Stakes Both Sides Unyielding

Book:How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling

Source: How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling

“There's not a comedy actor who doesn't want a chance to do drama, and vice versa. As actors, we're always looking to be pushed and to do the other side of the coin.”

Want Actors Sides Chance Comedy Drama Vices Coins Vice Versa

Author:Matthew Lillard

“I haven't always wanted to be an actor, no. I wasn't one of the little kids that was desperate to be an actor. I did a lot of drama and a lot of music, but it was just something for fun on the side. I was quite shy as a kid and I found a lot of freedom in performing. I never knew you could do it as a job.”

Littles Kids Wanted Jobs Actors Found Fun Sides Havens Drama Performing Desperate Shy Little Kid

Author:Gemma Chan

“Comedy and drama are different sides of the same coin. And the thing about comedy and drama is about likability. It's about character first. It's about story. And for me, it's about empathy, and I think the realer someone is, the further you can go either way with them.”

Thinking Way Firsts Different Character Stories Sides Comedy Drama Empathy Coins Different Sides

Author:Ricky Gervais

“For me, making a lot of dramas on one side it's a different sort of challenge, and on the other, it's not a challenge at all, meaning that my goal is to try and bring the realism and acting you might find in a straight drama with the intentions and conflict, where it doesn't feel tongue-in-cheek, but rather committed and real.”

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Author:James Mangold

“Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about salvation or one is not. And it is well to realize that the maximum amount of seriousness admits the maximum amount of comedy. Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.”

Ifs Wells Littles Soul Universe Belief Sides Realizing Comedy Serious Amount Drama Salvation Secure Maximum Seriousness Comical

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.”

Real Stories Sides Drama Real Story

Author:Errol Morris

“Larry and I, and a bunch of our colleagues, were sitting on great stories that needed to get out to an audience in one way, shape or form. We've both produced comics in the past, and audio dramas seemed like a similarly interesting option, the other side of the coin. As we've continued with the project, the format has become a vital way for us to tell our stories.”

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Author:Glenn McQuaid

“I walk with Federico Garcia Lorca around the Upper West Side in Manhattan because that was a neighborhood he lived in and I imagine walking around Paris with Cesar Vallejo, a great Peruvian poet who lived in Paris. And I kind of create the walk as a kind of drama of my apprenticeship.”

Kind Sides Walks Imagine Poet Walking Drama West Paris Neighborhood Manhattan Apprenticeship West Side Lorca Peruvians

Author:Edward Hirsch

“Show him your soft side too. Being too pretty and smart... Guys don't like when a woman is better than a man.”

Men Shows Guy Sides Drama Smart Smart Guy

Author:Hong Jin-joo

“I kind of pride myself on coming onto things that are well-oiled machines and finding a way to bring what I bring and fit in, and raise it to another level if I can. And this [Code Black ] has been another one of those really fun success stories, much like Parks And Recreation, although obviously on the other side of the comedy/drama equation.”

“My visual landscape as a child was the inside of a lot of these old churches. And the Baroque drama of the things was what I was first engaging with artwise. I'm much more attracted to the aesthetic of religious iconography than the actual religious side. The passion and the blood and the violence and the gaudy side of it I find really fascinating.”

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Author:Florence Welch

“I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. With the laugh comes the tears and in developing motion pictures or television shows, you must combine all the facts of life - drama, pathos and humor.”

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Author:Walt Disney

“Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow.”

Source: A Soldier of the Great War

“If you always look forward, will you go straight? In order to do so, you have to look to your sides and rear and check the traffic signs. And you have to ask for directions from other people.”

People Ifs Looks Order Asks Sides Drama Checks Traffic Your Side

Author:Lee Eun-sung

“One line on the arm, one line on the heart. The bastards who stood by my side with two lines. They'll be the hardest farewells I'll have to make in my life and they're the luckiest fortune I've met in my lifetime.”

Heart Two Sides Lines Arms Drama Mets Fortune Lifetime Hardest Farewell One Line

Author:Choi Yoon-young

“If you said left, then I'd be on the left. If you said right, I'd be on the right. The important thing is not which side, but it's the trust. Your heart and mine will never change. That kind of trust!”

Ifs Heart Kind Said Important Left Sides Mines Drama Important Things Never Change Trust Your Heart

Author:Kwon Sang-woo

“I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.”

Sides Comedy Drama Coins Flip Two Sides So Sad

Author:Dianne Wiest

“I've done a lot of serious roles, but they're, like, independent, so it's harder for them to come out. The big ones have been comedies, but I would love to get a big drama to let people see the other side of me, that I am a serious actress.”

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Author:Tara Reid

“The thing I always say to any writer that I'm working with is: Just make sure that in any argument, EVERYONE is right. I want every single person arguing a righteous side of the argument. That makes interesting drama.”

Want Persons Sides Interesting Drama Argument Arguing Righteous Single Person

Author:David Fincher

“Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician can use to create a musical work. All one thing is a bore - all dissonance, or all fatuous consonance. George Winston and Guns and Roses are two sides of the same worthless coin in my esthetic world.”

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