“It's great when you can bait and switch people - and I don't mean that in a negative way, I mean that in truth. If we were advertising this movie as a very serious indictment about the hunt for war criminals, and it's a very dark drama, it would probably get great reviews, but people would stay away from it because no one wants to be lectured.” PeopleIfsWayWantMeanWarDarkSeriousDramaNegativeCriminalsAdvertisingReviewsHuntsBaitIndictment Author:Richard Shepard
“The White Queen in many ways it is representative of the sort of drama that I'm talking about. The books by Philippa Gregory were best sellers and they specifically told the story of history from the point of view of women.” WayBookStoriesWhiteViewsTalkingDramaPoint Of ViewQueensRepresentativesSellersBest Sellers Author:Colin Callender
“We have a slate of four films. From Karen Young - the USA bestselling author - we have Blood Bayou. Again, we're relying on the story to tell itself and the characters tell it and not (relying on) shock value. It's a suspenseful drama...The best way I can describe it is Pelican Brief meets Time to Kill.” WayI CanCharacterStoriesFilmYoungValuesFourBloodDramaBest WayUsaShockYou AgainSlateTime To KillBayouShock ValuePelicans Author:Drew Waters
“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.” WayStoriesPastFormSidesInterestingAudienceNeededDramaShapesProjectsSittingBunchOne WayColleaguesCoinsFormatLarryAudio Author:Glenn McQuaid
“The more we do this, the more the audio-drama format is opening up to us in new ways. So I think there's an experimental element, or at least an confidence in experimenting, that's running though our work now - and it wasn't there in the first season.” ThinkingWayFirstsRunningDramaElementsSeasonsOpeningNew WaysFormatOpening UpAudio Author:Glenn McQuaid
“I'm definitely a fan of sort of dramas, independent sort of social dramas where you play really challenging roles. Every actor wants to play those dark roles and it's definitely true for me and I'd love to kind of challenge myself in any way possible.” WayWantKindPlayActorsSocialChallengesDarkRolesFansDramaIndependent Author:Nathalie Emmanuel
“I think television is a unique form, in terms of storytelling. Having source material for these really dense, complicated, serialized dramas is a great way of world-building.” ThinkingWorldWayFormTermTelevisionBuildingMaterialsSourceDramaUniqueComplicatedStorytellingDense Author:Chris Albrecht
“My dad was an actor, and my older sister is an actress, and so I very much remember thinking, "Well, of course I'll do that as well." But I never imagined myself as an actor who would be in films. I always only thought of myself being in a play or a musical and maybe the odd episode of [U.K. '80s TV drama] Casualty. My backup plan was to do something with children, to start a nursery school or work with underprivileged kids. And I still dream of maybe doing that in some way. I've always got children in my house, always.” ThinkingWayWellsChildrenStillsPlayDreamWould BeKidsSchoolRememberFilmCoursesActorsHousePlansTvsDadDramaMusicalMy DadActressesOddEpisodes80sNurseryCasualtiesBackupOlder SisterUnderprivilegedBackup PlanNursery School Author:Kate Winslet
“I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.” PeopleIfsWayWantCharacterDesireTurnsEventsDramaConflictEssenceInternalsCombustionDesire To Change Author:Miranda Richardson
“I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught me drama and encouraged me in every way.” WaySchoolTeacherWonderfulTaughtDramaVery GoodExaminationSecondary SchoolWonderful Teacher Author:Brian Blessed
“I probably shouldn't do a straight drama. I'd probably ruin it. I don't know. But, I'd love the opportunity to try. I'm sure that every kind of filmmaker feels that they can do other genres of film and want to, and I feel the same way.” KnowsWayWantFeelsTryingKindFilmOpportunityCan DoDramaRuinsGenreFilmmaker Author:Steve Pink
“One of the great things about drama is that it makes you feel like you're not a crackpot, and that there are other people who think and feel the way you do.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsLike YouDramaGreat ThingsCrackpots Author:James Purefoy
“With knowledge, our creation can go in any direction - from the worst kind of drama, to the most beautiful dream. Then the best way to express our creativity is with love and awareness of what we really are.” WayKindDreamBeautifulCreativityWorstAwarenessCreationDramaBest WayBeautiful Dreams Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz
“There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think. If you're an actor in England, that's just the way to get into it but I've been so incredibly lucky in that I was brought up in to it. I still might go to drama school, if I wanted to do theater work, definitely. It's a completely different type of training.” IfsThinkingWayStillsDifferentMightWantedSchoolActorsTypeDramaLuckyTrainingEnglandTheaterHype Author:Eleanor Tomlinson
“How do you get the protagonists and antagonists together, in the same space, without somebody having to die? So, we ended up having to tell two distinct stories, which is never the ultimate way to create a great serialized drama. So then, of course, we had the tragedy with Andy [Whitfield], which made everything very difficult and pushed back.” WayMadeTwoStoriesTogetherDiesCoursesDifficultSpaceDramaUltimateTragedyProtagonistsAntagonist Author:Chris Albrecht
“For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing. How the comedy ever even started in my life was that moments got uncomfortable and I felt uncertain of what the outcome was going to be, so I found a way to deflect what I was feeling, or what everyone else was feeling, by creating laughter.” WayMomentsFeelingsFoundFeltComedyDramaCreatingLaughterUncomfortableOutcomesThat MomentUncertain Author:Romany Malco
“Agent Coulson takes the work very seriously. He certainly has some fun with Spider-Man and the others, but he takes each of their tasks, including when they get involved with the drama club, way too seriously. The adventures that they come up with are really exciting.” MenWayFunAdventureInvolvedDramaTasksExcitingIncludingCome UpClubsAgentsSpidersGet InvolvedSpider ManDrama Club Author:Clark Gregg
“McLeod's Daughters was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera. I learned a lot of technical aspects that you take for granted once you know them, but you have to learn them somewhere, along the way. It was a bit of a training ground for me, working in front of the camera and also dealing with media.” KnowsWayFirstsSchoolJobsBitsTermRolesMediaFrontsDramaTrainingDaughterAspectCamerasGranted Author:Dustin Clare
“I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting clas-ses. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.” WayWantRealPlaySchoolActorsActingFiveDramaSeriesScriptsNinePerformingMonologuesSchool Plays Author:Vinny Guadagnino
“At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.” WaySchoolEvilDealsEmotionRolesDramaEveryday Author:Eva Green
“It's always nice to have people love the things that you do. But it's a lot of hard work, and people are always passionate, if it's family fare or a drama, it's the same amount of work and people invest everything into that, and when it doesn't come out the way you want it to, of course it's hurtful.” PeopleIfsWayWantHardCoursesNiceHard WorkAmountDramaPassionateHurtful Author:Justin Bartha
“I don't stay in the genre because I just like all stories that have a smart hook in them and I can find a comic way through if it's a comedy or a suspenseful way through it if it's a drama.” IfsWayI CanStoriesComedyDramaSmartComicGenreHook Author:Jay Roach
“The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most celebrated roles. Then I played a really fat person. I played a lot of different things. That's how I thought I loved to wrangle my talent, my need to express myself. I like to do it that way.” WayNeedsYearsPersonsDifferentCareersRolesTalentCollegeDramaMajorsFatsDifferent ThingsOld WomanYale Author:Meryl Streep
“I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive ways in the classroom. The next Saturday I was acting, and thereafter it became a ritual of my youth to see a show at the Belvoir on Sundays and, if I was lucky, another at the Opera House on Monday after school.” IfsWayShouldShowsSchoolNextHouseParentActingClassTeacherYouthDramaLuckySundayRitualOperaClassroomSaturdayMondayCurbDisruptiveAfter SchoolOpera HouseDrama Class Author:David Wenham
“The road to hell is paved with reasonable religion with a non-anxious god. Most days, I'm pretty happy driving down that road. But I keep running into this Crazy Fellow along the way. At every stop light, he jumps up and down to get my attention. He pounds on my window asking me where the heck I think I'm going. He stands on the front bumper, shouting at me to turn around. When all else fails, he throws himself in front of the car. He's such a drama queen.” ThinkingWayLightRunningTurnsAttentionHellFailingCrazyCarFrontsDramaWindowAskingFellowsDrivingQueensReasonablePoundsAnxiousUp And DownShoutingBumperKeep RunningWhen All Else Fails Author:Mark Galli
“A lot of times, drama around it is not for the worse but for the best in the long run. If we look at it that way, I have learned to find the best of it in most situations.” IfsWayLooksLongRunningSituationDramaLong RunsI Have Learned Author:Camila Alves
“As an actor you really want to push yourself, and there's no better way than to do an intense drama.” WayWantActorsDramaIntenseBetter WaysPush Yourself Author:Matthew Lewis
“I'm still primarily interested in observing as closely as possible the shifting weather between people. I think the master of this sort of thing, and a writer who has meant a great deal to me, is Henry James: there's a magical way that he has of turning the slightest gesture into a whole world of drama and feeling.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayStillsWholeFeelingsDealsMastersDramaWhole WorldWeatherGesturesObservingShifting Author:Garth Greenwell
“I think that's actually what draws me to family stories: the various roles we each play with each member of our families, and how different they can be from who we are with our friends and partners and lovers. I'm endlessly fascinated by how we navigate these family dynamics; they are the dramas each of us live out day after day, often in ways we don't even realize.” ThinkingWayDifferentPlayStoriesRealizingRolesLoversDramaMembersDrawsVariousPartnersOur FamilyWho We AreFascinatedNavigateDynamics Author:Christopher Castellani
“I come from a little bit of a theatrical background. I started that way. I don't have a tremendous body of work or anything, but I went to drama school. And so, to get to do a piece where the characters get to talk a lot, and that isn't just about the spectacle or the set piece, or is simply visual or movement based. It was really wonderful for me, and juicy and exciting.” WayLittlesCharacterBodySchoolBitsPiecesWonderfulMovementDramaLittle BitExcitingBackgroundsVisualsTheatricalJuicy Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“I love really exploring... you know, a cop drama for example is a great way to explore class in this country and explore, you know, really, identity in the country and who we are in a way that is extremely exciting, but it's also real, you know, it's also real people and real drama. The same with the military. I mean, a good science fiction story is also great.” PeopleKnowsWayMeanRealCountryStoriesFictionClassMilitaryExampleIdentityDramaExcitingScience FictionWho We AreCopExploringReal YouGood ScienceFiction Stories Author:Ethan Hawke
“Sort of what you do in drama school when asked to play something way out of your reach. Anyway, we used to laugh a lot about that. I used to say I'm not going to act old, Penelope. I'll just be myself.” WayPlaySchoolUsedLaughingDrama Author:Maggie Smith
“All of the action, and the Wild West West fun, crazy, HBO stuff is in there and it's all amazing, but what separates the show [ Westworld] is that it's an existential drama. It's an intellectual nightmare. It is all very much based in reality. A lot of the technologies that we're exploring is stuff that we're working at, right now. All of this is not that far away. It's taking a look at humanity and the state that we're in now and what would happen, if we kept on going the way that we're going and we created this artificial intelligence.” IfsWayLooksStatesShowsRealityHappensActionHumanityFunStuffTechnologyCrazyDramaRight NowIntellectualWestNightmareArtificial IntelligenceArtificialFar AwayExistentialExploringHboWild West Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“Where we're telling the story of the history of the ensemblist [in the "Ensemblist Essentials"], using the nine musicals that have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama as fixed points in time We're going from 1931 to 2016 and using these shows to talk about what the typical show was like for an ensemblist at the time; did this show change anything about that job, while it was changing everything about the way theatre was written and produced and made?” WayMadeStoriesShowsJobsWrittenDramaEssentialsTheatreNineFixedPrizeTypicalChanging Everything Author:Nikka Graff Lanzarone
“I think there's definitely a way to tell a story, to also look at marriages that are working, but find drama from what's challenging them. That's what I think, certainly, 'Parenthood' is kind of about: the unexpected things that come up in your life that challenge you as a man, as a woman, as a husband and a wife, and as a parent.” ThinkingMenWayLooksKindStoriesParentChallengesWifeDramaHusbandCome UpUnexpectedParenthoodUnexpected Things Author:Jason Katims
“It's the demand in many ways of modern television drama - it's very low key and naturalistic, and, generally speaking, the characters that I've played have not been low key and naturalistic.” WayCharacterModernTelevisionKeysDramaDemandLowsLow KeyTelevision Drama Author:Rowan Atkinson
“What directors of television drama constantly tell you is 'Don't act it. Don't try. Don't emphasise that word'. Whereas with someone like Blackadder, even though he's a relatively low key character in a way, he did relish the lines that he had and the words that he was given, with a lot of inflection.” WayTryingCharacterGivenLinesTelevisionKeysDramaDirectorsLowsRelishLow KeyTelevision Drama Author:Rowan Atkinson
“It is very linear storytelling, and I think that's not so much the fashion. I was watching a new drama the other night which was extremely non-linear, where you flash back and flash forward in ways that certainly keeps you on your toes as the audience. There's not much of that courage with the storytelling in our Maigret film.” ThinkingWayFilmNightAudienceFashionDramaStorytellingFlashToesLinear Author:Rowan Atkinson
“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.” IfsWayWellsKindHas BeensI CanStoriesFunSidesBlackLevelsComedyPrideFitDramaFindingsMachinesRaisesCodeParksEquationsRecreationSuccess StoriesParks And RecreationWell Oiled Machines Author:Rob Lowe
“People ask me all the time what it's like to work with my mother. I feel completely blessed because, first of all, this has given us an opportunity to enrich our relationship in ways we never could have imagined. Our time together is purely creative. It's unfettered by politics or the news of the day or aches and pains or family dramas or anything else. This time together is sort of golden and protected as being just creative time, which is heavenly.” PeopleWayFeelsFirstsPainTogetherMotherAsksOpportunityGivenCreativeDramaNewsBlessedGoldenAsk MeOur TimeHeavenlyProtectedOur RelationshipAcheFamily DramaTime TogetherAches And PainsOur Time Together Author:Emma Walton Hamilton
“I think that the drama of people rising up demanding their own freedom is one that resonates very deeply with America. I think that President Barack Obama has tried and would like to find a way to relate to the Arab Spring, but I think he also wants to be, rightly, very careful that we don't take it over. It is very important that they own this. He is trying to influence it this way but without, "We're so never going to go to the extreme of Iraq and putting boots on the ground again."” PeopleThinkingWayWantTryingImportantAmericaPresidentInfluenceDramaSpringIraqCarefulExtremesBarackRelateRisingOver ItBootsVery DeepPresident Barack ObamaRising UpArab Spring Author:Thomas Friedman
“The market literature, which was particularly strong in Igboland, in Onitsha, today it is no longer strong. It is one of the victims of the civil war, that market was actually destroyed and at the end of the war a new Nigeria has struggled to come into being and I believe that what is probably going to replace the market literature might be the video, which they have taken to in a big way, creating dramas. So that may be the next thing way we will see coming out of the local basic level in our society.” WayBelieveMayWarEndsBigsMightTodayNextLiteratureStrongI BelieveLevelsTakenDramaCreatingVictimLocalsVideoDestroyedCivil WarOur SocietyComing OutNigeria Author:Chinua Achebe
“There's no way you could get me onstage with someone that I didn't like. No way. I would never do that. We have our gripes and stuff like that. All bands have their drama, but life is too short to be miserable around somebody that you don't like.” WayLife IsStuffDramaBandMiserableToo ShortLife Is Too Short Author:Mike Dirnt
“I think Trump has made it really hard for people to read, period. He's made it hard for me anyway. Part of his evil is the way it constantly distracts us, constantly upends our horizon. To leave your computer for three hours now is to miss a year's worth of drama. This is programmatic and common to other autocratic regimes of our times.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsMadeHardThreeEvilHoursCommonMissingTrumpPeriodsDramaComputerMade ItOur TimeHorizonRegimes Author:Jonathan Raymond
“Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history; if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama.” IfsWayHappensAsksAnswersDramaHistoricalDetailsThings HappenAccuracyParamount Author:Tony Kushner
“There's no way around it, drama is very difficult to shoot. It's very heavy and something that you carry with you for the course of the day.” WayCoursesDifficultDramaHeavy Author:Denis Leary
“The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.” WayQualityEventsChangedDramaPrioritiesHandleLife Has Changed Author:Ali MacGraw
“The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.” WayWantDoeIdeasTaughtDramaSettingSettingsThemeProtagonists Author:David Mamet
“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
“Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate elements of drama, comedy and suspense is moderately ingenious.” WayShowsStarsComedyDramaElementsDancingVarietySuspenseClassicIdolsIngeniousAmerican IdolDancing With The Stars Author:Tom Shales