#drama

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap. ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#discipline #dramatic #hard #hard work #i

Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#boring #certain #certain things #drama #ever

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#forms #narrative #poems #poets #southern

I like to mix it up, yeah. I don't sort of think,'Oh, I need to do a comedy, I've done three dramas this year.' I don't think of it like that, but I definitely from project to project I feel like I want to just do something different all of the time and stop, I don't want to bore myself or anyone else. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#bore #comedy #definitely #different #done

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#drama #mechanized #society #supreme #war

So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character; it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically. ↗

— Dennis Muren

#clearly #communicate #design #dramatically #few

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#comedy #compass #disgust #drama #emotions

You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#drama #new #novel #resolve #same

My roles don't centre around drugs at all! Shadiness is different - it's drama. We're making movies! You've gotta have conflict. ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#centre #conflict #different #drama #gotta

The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#change #climate #climate change #dramatic #impact