Quotes About Drama

I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing.

I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.

I come from a traditional theater background.

I didn't come from a traditional background of studying theater and doing Shakespeare.

The challenge in daytime in particular, I think, is to go against all the traditional cliches of daytime and try to make it real.

I write traditional drama, and the small enclosed communities work well with this form. I enjoy exploring secrets. On small islands, privacy is important, and there are secrets that everyone can guess but nobody talks about.

Traffic is one of the most powerful films to come out in recent years. It blew me away.

It gives us a look into a world that's very much like 'Traffic' was for drugs, this movie is for gun running. Dark at times, but I think Nic Cage is an incredible person to watch and very entertaining.

I have been a funny kid growing up but every one thought I was a serious person. I think it has to do with the choice of my films such as 'Zakhm,' 'Kalyug' and 'Traffic Signal.'

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

I like dark, hopeless, beautiful tragedies.

I think when I started out, when I was very young, I wanted to be an actor and do the great epic tragedies.

At the root of everything I write is tragedy.

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.

Greek tragedy was pre-Freudian, so every emotion has to be so raw; there are no psychological undertones.

I consider tragedy the highest form of art.

When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.