“I simply can't understand the stereotyping women as film makers who make soppy family dramas. Look at Katherine Bigelow: she has directed Point Break and Strange Days. I hate labels of any kind. Just because you are a woman you can't do this or that? Twenty years ago women entering the work force was enough of a shock. People just like the predictable; they feel safe with it. You know, it's such a bore” PeopleKnowsFeelsYearsLooksKindEnoughFilmHateForceBreakStrangeDramaSafeYears AgoI HateTwentiesLabelsShockMakersBoresStereotypeEnteringFamily DramaPredictablePoint BreakStrange Days Author:Deepa Mehta
“So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.” KindHas BeensCertainInterestStrangeDramaGreat AmericanDysfunctionDysfunctional Family Author:Stephen Karam
“A belief in God may not be fully within me anymore, but there's still a belief in belief. The high drama and power of the Church has stayed with me. As a child in church, I saw grown men at the altar crying out for God's mercy. And the idea of someone doing that has become a joke in the popular culture, but when you are there and you see it, you experience - for a moment - an incredibly raw, honest, strange insight into what it means to be a human being. Those experiences don't leave you. Whatever you think of them, they are powerful experiences.” ThinkingMenMeanChildrenMomentsCultureBeliefChurchPowerfulHonestCryStrangeDramaJokesMercyInsightPopular CultureBelief In God Author:Ayana Mathis
“The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.” MomentsWatchesStrangeDramaMeetingsStrangerThis LifeFriendly Author:Haniel Long
“I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my home town the whole time. However, I see more of my friends now than I did then. It's strange.” WholeHomeSchoolStrangeDramaMy FriendsTownsRoyalAcademyScottishGlasgowHome Town Author:James McAvoy
“Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.” WritingHumansPastSpiritSufferingHuman BeingsPleasureGriefFateStrangePoetSourceDramaLegendsVersesAgonyRemembrancePlaywrightAlchemy Book:Dragon's Teeth Source: Dragon's Teeth
“It's strange, the lack of emotion, the absence of drama in reality. When things happen in real life, extraordinary things, there's no music, there's no dah-dah-daaahhs. There's no close-ups. No dramatic camera angles. Nothing happens. Nothing stops, the rest of the world goes on.” WorldRealRealityHappensEmotionStrangeGoes OnDramaCamerasExtraordinaryAbsenceThings HappenReal LifeDramaticAngleExtraordinary ThingsCamera Angles Book:Martyn Pig Source: Martyn Pig
“There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy.” IdeasFormComedyStrangeDramaHollywoodWorthyReasoningConsiderationAwardsAcademyDeserving Author:Gene Kelly
“The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to tormentor, just as kids simultaneously light up our lives and drive us nuts. I was trying to capture that strange, bipolar quality of parenthood. For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.” WayTryingIdeasMomentsLightKidsParentEmotionQualityFocusOur LivesProduceStrangeDramaNormalExtremesParenthoodCaptureNutsSwingsPrimalBipolarLight UpBeing A ParentComforter Author:Emma Donoghue