“The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration.” IfsDoeUseFeelingsHandsRunningAudienceGeniusHealthyDramaThousandLaughterMereInstinctCriticsPassionateWitImpressionPityTendenciesLuxuryImpulseGoing AwayAdmirationCopiesGrainAllowance Author:Leigh Hunt
“Take a bunch of little kids to the beach and they all make art. Adults are too stupid to call it art, but it is art. They'll use their imaginations, make drama, make up characters, make pictures in the sand, they'll make up songs that no one's ever heard before. All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.” ThinkingLittlesArtCharacterUseKidsSchoolSongImaginationCreativeHeardStupidDramaAdultsBunchBeachSandLittle Kid Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie
“My tutors at drama school commended and criticised my use of comedy in my acting for a long time at drama school. They said I had a tendency to somehow perform the most tragic of scenes in a slightly flippant way.” WayLongSaidUseSchoolActingComedyDramaSceneLong TimeTendenciesTragicThey SaidTutorFlippant Author:John Bradley-West
“I like comedy, but I like comedy as a device in drama. It's more interesting for me to use comedy to seduce people into thinking about something serious. If you want to hit a beat in a drama, you can distract people with a little comedy, and you can punch them in the gut with some emotion.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantLittlesUseInterestingEmotionComedySeriousDramaBeatsGutsDevicesSeducing Author:Steve Coogan
“The only difference between comedy and drama is that, in comedy, I'm going to utilize the tool of creating laughter to deflect discomfort and, in drama, I won't use a tool, but we're going to actually deal with the discomfort and see what comes out of it.” UseDifferencesDealsComedyDramaCreatingLaughterToolsDiscomfort Author:Romany Malco
“All jokes aside, it's a very difficult job playing the straight man. Jason is potentially the most brilliant straight man that ever was because he's also really funny while doing it, which is even harder. I've always seen myself playing characters who are flawed. We use comedy in our lives to obscure the drama.” MenCharacterUseJobsDifficultComedyOur LivesDramaJokesHarderBrilliantObscureFlawedJason Author:Will Arnett
“One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.” NeedsUseHomeCan DoDramaTragedyEnvyLoyaltyDowners Author:Ben Kingsley
“Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.” KindStoriesUseSoundStupidDramaStrongerSillyVersionsFasterFlats Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has become a great burden to us. We either bear the burden or fail and go down with it, we struggle with it, win or lose. And Sabina - what had come over her? Nothing. She had left a man because she felt like leaving him. Had he persecuted her? Had he tried to take revenge on her? No. Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden, but the unbearable lightness of being.” MenWantGivingUseWinningLeftFeltLosesSituationStruggleOur LivesFailingExpressionBearsDramaLeavingMetaphorBurdenRevengeDramaticUnbearablePersecutedLightnessWin Or LoseHeavinessUnbearable Lightness Of BeingUnbearable LightnessLeaving HimDramatic Situations Author:Milan Kundera
“Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend. Don’t ask for advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.” IfsBelieveChildrenUseAsksWishParentUnderstandingStepsAdviceMaterialsDramaBlessingWasteParentingUnconditional LoveHave FaithProvidingEldersInheritanceUnconditionalChildren And Parents Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
“Why don't you be together with me? If you can't say it out now, then you just answer by selecting... 1st, if you say YES, we will get married right away 2nd, if you say NO, I will use every possible way to make you say YES and get married right away 3rd, if you say you need time to consider, I will give you one day to think over it and then get married So you just choose, is it YES or NO? No, it's either 1st, 2nd or 3rd. Marry or not marry?” IfsThinkingWayNeedsGivingUseTogetherAnswersDramaOne DayMarriedOver ItTime Of NeedYes Or No Author:Park Shin-yang
“Fake is not a word I like to use because there's nothing fake about what I do. It's a show, it's a predetermined outcome; we're putting on a television drama, action, comedy, whatever you want to call it - but it's not fake. Fake would be if I was just about to take a body slam, and my stuntman did it. Fake would be if I was going to take a chair shot to the head, and the chair was made of rubber. I'll tell the world that it's a show, but I hate the word fake. It's such an unfair term to us.” IfsWorldWantMadeUseShowsBodyWould BeActionHateTermComedyTelevisionDramaShotsI HateFakeOutcomesChairsUnfairSlamRubberPredeterminedStuntmanTelevision Drama Author:Chris Jericho
“I capture reality, never pose it. But once captured, is it still reality? I've always tried to play with the false impression of reality, with the ambiguity of appearances. Things are what they seem to be, or maybe something else. I use people as unconscous actors in little dramas they don't know they're in. These pictures are about Earthlings, but I'll let you in on a secret: I'm an Earthling myself.” PeopleKnowsLittlesStillsPlayUseRealitySeemsActorsSecretDramaAppearanceImpressionCaptureAmbiguityCaptured Author:Richard Kalvar
“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.” WorldNeedsTwoUseSidesMusicOne ThingAchieveMaterialsDramaMusicianGunOppositesRoseJazzMusicalBoresCoinsWorthlessJazz MusicTwo SidesDissonanceJuxtapositionHarshnessConsonance Author:Chuck Israels
“Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.” WritingUseLanguageDramaSkillsUse Of Language Author:John Milius