Quotes About Drama

All drama is conflict. Without conflict, you have no action; without action, you have no character; without character, you have no story; and without story, you have no screenplay.

The dramatic premise is what the screenplay is about; it provides the dramatic thrust that drives the story to its conclusion.

I flipped the good doctor the bird. Snorting, Gideon caught my hand and pulled me back down the hall. What is it with you and giving people the finger? What? It's a classic.

What are you doing? he breathed. You're going around, stirring up everything. I've got time on my hands, I shot back, just as breathless, since I dumped my asshat boyfriend. He growled, fiercely passionate, his hand in my hair pulling so tightly it pained me. You can't make this up with a kiss or a f*ck, Gideon. Not this time. Gideon & Eva

One dark brow arched. You're getting the fuck-me look and thinking about Arnoldo? Do I have to kick his ass now, too? Chapter 11 pg. 193

The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out.

Tu mente es la mayor guionista de «culebrones» de la historia: se inventa relatos increíbles, generalmente basadas en dramas y desastres, de situaciones que jamás han ocurrido y probablemente nunca ocurrirán. Mark Twain lo dijo de la mejor forma: «He tenido miles de problemas en mi vida, la mayoría de los cuales nunca sucedieron en realidad».

On his life between 1926-1927: like a bad Russian novel

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

I saw someone hurrying over, a man, who grasped Egyptia's raised arm excitedly. All right, he said. Tell me your number. Egyptia and I stared at him. His eyes were popping. Go away, Egyptia said. Her own eyes filled with tears. She couldn't bear the stupid things life did to her.

It was then, so curiously, that Miranda held out her arms...And Rachaela went into the arms of Miranda, and together they wept,...like ancient sisters in a tragedy.

Flavian Estemba, generally called "Mercurio" by those who knew him, stared toward the street, feigned vertigo, swayed first forward over the drop, next back, and so gracefully and bonelessly fell into the garden, and into the arms of Romulan, who, with a curse, caught him.

The aunties can make Game of Thrones look like Dora the Explorer, but that's not the point.

Whoever said that a straightened hand was more dramatic than a healed heart anyway? -the character Dr. Paul Thompson from Blessed Child

Whoever said that a straighten hand was more dramatic than a healed heart?

Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.

I go to the movies because – I like adventure. Adventure is something I don't have much of at work, so I go to the movies.

Once Spencer was safely out of the shop, John yanked her around to face him and said, 'What the hell do you think you're doing?' Before she had a chance to answer him, Alex showed up at his side, grabbed Emma similarly and hissed, 'What the hell do you think you're doing?' Persephone looked at Dunford and smiled, waiting for her turn, but much to her disappointment, he just stood there and glared at all three women.

Do you think he's the murderer?" "It's worse than that -- he's an actor!

Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.

Stargazing is the story of a happy family plunged into an unexpected drama: it's poignant, warm, and unpredictable. I enjoyed it hugely.' -- Julie Cohen

I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.

It is within the commercial realm of advertising that the drama of Otherness finds expression. Encounters with Otherness are clearly marked as more exciting, more intense, and more threatening. The lure is the combination of pleasure and danger.

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.