Quotes About Drama

With 'True Blood,' you don't know what to expect. You don't know how wild it's gonna get.

It was an extremely overdramatic play called 'Wild Decembers'. It was all about the Brontes, and they all, one after the other, died of tuberculosis. I remember taking every opportunity to cough over other people's lines.

'Fargo,' man, with so many actors playing so many great characters, and then they do another season, and it changes all over again? It's wild.

Acting between action and cut is temporary. The result is permanent.

That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it.

All actors know that the real adrenaline rush is in doing theatre. There is an immediate connect, and a role in a play, for an actor, is the biggest temptation.

As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.

The less people that are on the stage, there's more drama. You start living the music with each individual. When you see a band with ten people on stage, just a huge ensemble, you don't know who's doing what.

The show originally started out as a ten hour mini-series. We shot two hours and then were excused for a while, for no apparent reason. Things went very quiet for a time and then a few months later we were called back and told that it was going to be a full season.

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.

I think one of the great strengths of 'The Flash' is just how close everyone is on the show. They tend not to have these raging conflicts, like what we keep giving everybody on 'Arrow.' That show is more of a soap opera, and I don't say that derogatorily.

Hindi films tend to over-romanticise situations.

One reason we fell in love with television is we've seen so many movies and they tend to follow a very similar pattern.

I don't tend to write straight dramas where real life just impinges. But because I don't, when I do, it is very interesting to slap people in the face with just an absolute of life.

When we watch courtroom dramas, we tend to identify with the kindhearted defense attorney, but give us the power, and we become like hanging judges.

We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

I love period drama as much as the next person, but there's a tendency to let all of the costume get in the way of the people.

I have a tendency to check out when the stakes are too high in a movie.

'Tender' is my most strongly autobiographical play.

'Mike & Molly' exists in a world where we don't just say a snarky line, make a crazy face, and walk out of the room. There's actually some tender moments here, too.

When you see period films, it tends to often be with older actors.

As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.

I don't like other actors much. The industry tends to attract insecure, needy people.

My lighting tends to use contrast as a reflection of the stakes in the scene. The higher the stakes, the more I feel I can get away with an exaggerated contrast.