“Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.” TodayInterestingWonderfulStageTelevisionDramaMost InterestingBlockbuster Author:Julie Walters
“One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of the wonderful things about acting.” ActingWonderfulDramaDifficultyWonderful Things Author:Anjelica Huston
“I would love to continue to challenge myself by trying different things. Action, Drama, Comedy... I would be grateful to do any and all of it if someone is kind enough to hire me! I have such a wonderful time on The Originals though, because I get to play Rebekah in so many different periods. I'm a little spoiled.” IfsTryingKindLittlesDifferentEnoughPlayWould BeActionChallengesComedyWonderfulPeriodsDramaOriginalsGratefulDifferent ThingsBe GratefulSpoiledWonderful TimesTrying Different Things Author:Claire Holt
“Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to repeat as world champion, and she gives the most gracious interview afterward about how she's had a wonderful career already. Great for Jenny Simpson. Bad for the sport! We need drama!” WorldNeedsGivingSportsLosesChanceHalfCareersWonderfulDramaHundredShoesChampionRepeatsInterviewsDestroyingFifteenLapGraciousWorld ChampionsJenny Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes. I love taking a bunch of characters and it usually is a bunch of characters, and you throw something at them that's usually extreme, like a bag of money, or you send them out to explode a nuclear device on the surface of the sun. And those extremes are wonderful for drama.” CharacterFilmSunWonderfulHavensDramaExtremesSurfaceNuclearBunchBagsDevicesCustoms Author:Danny Boyle
“That's the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it's this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see into each other's lives.” WritingFictionWonderfulDramaWonderful ThingsShared Experiences Author:Uma Thurman
“Everyone loves a slice of period-drama-pie, but I think the success of Upstairs Downstairs is really down to the wonderful format that Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins created.” ThinkingWonderfulPeriodsDramaPieOne LoveFormatUpstairsMarshes Author:Ellie Kendrick
“I didn't really know much about the Houdinis when I started. As soon as they sent me the script, I wanted to find out everything I could about Bess. Luckily, I have a really wonderful friend named Michael Mitnick, who's a writer. He was a magician as a child, and that led him to the theater, which led to drama school, and he writes films now. Magic was really his thing, growing up, so he put me in touch with his magic teacher who is a real Houdini expert.” KnowsWritingChildrenRealWantedSchoolFilmGrowing UpTeacherGrowingWonderfulMagicDramaTheaterScriptsExpertsMagicianWonderful FriendsHoudini Author:Kristen Connolly
“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 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