#drama

As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#forties #got #i #into #student

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#i #i think #melodrama #myself #opera

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#drama #ends #life #sigh #wail

Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#inspiration #narrative #structure #writing #inspirational

Our lives drifts along with normal things happening. Some ups, some downs, but nothing to go down in history about. Nothing so fantastic or terrible that it'll be told for a thousand years. “But because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs! So people pretend there is drama where there is none.” That's why people invent fights. That's why we're drawn to sports. That's why we act like everything that happens to us is such a big deal. We're trying to make our life into a fairy tale. ↗

— Derek Sivers

#life

Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now. ↗

— Julianne Moore

#business #dramas #making #many #material

I just like the continue doing what I've been doing. A melange of funny, straight drama, television, movies, a little theater here and there wouldn't hurt. So if I can keep doing that, I'll be a very happy person. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

#continue #doing #drama #funny #happy

I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#acts #aesthetic #also #always #arena

The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#ancient #drama #hidden #imaginations #into

I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever. ↗

— Edward Norton

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