Quotes About Drama

Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What's a good story?'

If the characters on 'The West Wing' were watching a TV show wherein a character like Trump was leading in the polls, they wouldn't find it believable.

I would love to do a political drama. I'm a 'West Wing' fanatic.

The West Wing' is an extremely naive entry into politics and political thinking.

Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.

I love a bit of political drama; 'The West Wing' is probably my favourite television series of all time.

The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.

For Democrats, nothing is any less complex than a 'West Wing' episode.

America has gone from the Obama Years to the Trump Years, like going from the 'West Wing' to a sitcom where the incidental music involves a tuba.

During my many hours on the Acela, I have taken to watching 'The West Wing,' Aaron Sorkin's drama of an idealised White House.

We are drama junkies, living half lives on social media, where we grandstand in a way only cowards do, anonymity gives us wings and if we are not trolling someone or being trolled by someone, the day just isn't a productive one.

The people who run Hollywood are supposed to be masters at creating drama, suspense, thrills - at putting on a great show. If we knew not only who the winners were but also by how much they won, the Oscar show could actually be the Super Bowl of movies.

'The Practice' is one of my favorite shows of all time, and the first few seasons of that show were amazing, and then when they started winning the big case, it just got less interesting.

They baffle me where they go with the storylines... we used to be a Golden Globe winning show.

You're writing about young, vibrant people; there are wins and losses. In other words, it's great drama.

The Oval 2018 was one of the most extraordinary Tests I've been involved with.

Tests with India always produce some great finishes.

They're really competitive at drama in Texas.

I had a very progressive drama teacher who would buy all the plays that were in New York and bring them to suburban Texas.

A musical is what happens when text collides with motion collides with song collides with spectacle. And spectacle can be the human heart; it doesn't necessarily have to be a helicopter crashing.

I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.

To me, the most important elements in a theatre are the actors and the texts.

There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.

My experience - and it might be just the kind of comedy that I do, which is usually sketch comedy - is that there's a lot more texture and subplot in drama than in comedy.