“I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.” ShowsCertainComedyStyleDramaRhythmPace Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino
“Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American drama seemed more a response to a materialist society run amok. The American-style Absurdism seemed to spring full-blown out of television advertisements and situation comedies, which had become new myth-making machines.” WarRunningSituationComedyStyleTelevisionDramaElementsSpringEuropeMachinesResponseMythInevitableLogicalAdvertisementsIrrationality Author:Arnold Aronson
“Comedy doesn't come easy for me. I've only done 2 movies that are really comedy-style films and I have to work at them. And they're just as scary in a way. I hate labeling all these things; comedy, love stories, dark drama, whatever.” WayDoneStoriesFilmHateEasyDarkComedyStyleDramaI HateScaryLove StoryLabeling Author:Channing Tatum
“I can do comedy but it's a certain type. I'm not a physical comedy guy. I'm not Will Ferrell - there's just this crazy and get naked and run through the thing screaming. That's just not my style; my style is drama or - I'm not slapstick.” I CanRunningGuyCertainCan DoComedyCrazyStyleTypeDramaNakedSlapstickPhysical Comedy Author:Mekhi Phifer
“I think people are tired of the CSI/SVU style of lurid and gory crime dramas. I believe there's a craving for lighter shows featuring detective characters who are fun to watch. I think people would welcome that kind of show.” PeopleThinkingBelieveKindCharacterShowsFunI BelieveWatchesStyleCrimeDramaTiredWelcomeCravingDetectivesLightersCsi Author:Carol Higgins Clark
“When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest.” IfsTryingLittlesCharacterMightActingSituationComedyHonestStyleDramaBeing Honest Author:Jonah Hill
“I mean Ally McBeal was sort of the closest thing I can think of to kind of being a comedy-drama but that had its own kind of style that meant it got kind of big sometimes. But it was a great show.” ThinkingKindMeanI CanSometimesShowsBigsComedyStyleDramaAlliesClosestAlly Mcbeal Author:Paul Feig
“My two souls, the socially conscious one and the lighthearted one, are always in my movies because they find a perfect habitat in my grotesque style, which combines tragedy and humor, irony and sarcasm, comedy and drama. I also feel that rules are made to be broken, especially in art! I prefer creative disorder to strict rules.” ArtSoulPerfectCreativeComedyStyleBrokenDramaConsciousTragedyIronySarcasm Author:Lina Wertmuller
“As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama. When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest.” WritingTryingCharacterActingSituationComedyHonestStyleDramaBeing HonestDramatic Author:Jonah Hill
“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
“Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.” ThinkingWorldWayFeelsKindShowsAbleComedyStyleDramaHarderSafetyScareGuestsSafety Net Author:Tatiana Maslany
“I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.” PeopleStyleDramaPhotographyTreatsAddPhotographCarefulLandscapeComplexityInterviewsCompositionLandscape Photography Author:Ken Burns
“When I was making these damned pictures, I never knew about film noir. If you had asked me about it then, I probably would have pointed to something like Bill Wellman's The Ox Bow Incident, the best Western I ever saw and very much in the style of film noir I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross that defines what kind of drama it is.” IfsKindStoriesCareFilmLyingEmotionSawsMysteryStyleDramaCrossesBillsWesternDon't CareI Don't CareBowsIncidentsNoirJuliusFilm Noir Author:Samuel Fuller
“After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles, fables on the pattern A+ B, a clear-sighted, sickly literature. No more poetry but analytic fantasy. Something monomaniacal. Things playing a more important part than people; love giving away to deductions and other forms of ideas, style, subject and interest. The basis of the novel transferred from the heart to the head, from the passion to the idea, from the drama to the denouement.” PeopleWorldGivingHeartImportantIdeasFormPassionReadingLiteratureInterestFantasyNovelClearSubjectsCenturyStyleDramaBasesMiracleCriticsPatterns20th CenturyPointingFablesAnalyticsDeductionsAllan PoeDenouement Author:Jules de Goncourt