Quotes About Drama

I was such a fan of 'True Blood;' I knew the essence of it.

Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting.

Every episode of 'True Blood' is like shooting a low budget feature.

'True Blood' differs from 'Six Feet Under' in that there are way more characters and plot-lines, but fundamentally it's still about the characters and their emotions.

Sookie is always in distress, it wouldn't be 'True Blood' if someone wasn't trying to kill her.

It wouldn't be 'True Blood' if somebody didn't die.

For what it's worth, I enjoy 'Dexter,' 'Modern Family,' 'True Blood' and 'Breaking Bad.' I've enjoyed the wonderful 'The Pacific.'

I watch all the shows. From 'Breaking Bad' to 'Game of Thrones.' 'Scandal' and 'True Detective.'

A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.

A guy like Bray Wyatt, he could easily have played something in 'True Detective.'

With 'True Detective,' you have a lot of time. How I like to describe it... it's like you're filming a theater piece.

I think a lot of us responded intensely to 'True Detective' because it was so incredibly earnest. That's what made it heartbreaking and involving.

We were seeing TV becoming increasingly cinematic, with stuff like 'True Detective.' And 'Game of Thrones' opened up 'genre TV' and showed it doesn't have to be cheesy.

When you get to do something based on a true story, it always raises the level of excitement.

I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.

You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.

Trying to find a way to represent something that is truly frightening on stage is a fascinating challenge.

During the Trump years, many people felt that his antics were impossible to ignore.

Schiff has pre-scripted a televised production titled 'The Impeachment Inquiry Against President Trump.' The story would likely be deemed too absurd and too boring to make it onto the silver screen as a drama, though it might succeed as a comedic farce - too silly to be taken seriously.

Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular.

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out to be a very good play, but at least it will be a play where people are behaving in a kind of truthful way.

Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.

Life ain't a drama. And life isn't just a comedy. Life is sometimes horrifying. Life is science-fiction. There are all elements and faculties that we navigate, so I just expect a script to reflect that. As long as it's truthful. I think genre-bending is just being honest.