Quotes About Drama

In a drama, you generally have to be very faithful to the script and the storyline, and it all has to fit together, and it's weighty and serious.

When you hear complaints about pro wrestling, it's that there is too much soap opera, too much storyline.

Sci-fi and horror, particularly, allow a storyteller to depart from, let's say, the demands of cinema verite or kitchen-sink realism or, even, just relatable dramas and can go into areas that are either - in the case of horror - more primally effective or, in the case of sci-fi, more speculative or imaginative.

Compared to other forms of drama, performance art is often thought of as inaccessible and overly artsy. I prefer to think of it as storytelling, something that has been with us through the ages and a part of every culture.

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

Obviously people loved 'Mystery Road', people loved the storytelling aspect of it, people liked the character.

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling - they call it slow-burn storytelling.

Casting is storytelling.

Theater and film are essentially the same - just different kinds of storytelling.

The important thing is the storytelling and having a script that makes you feel you're living and breathing through the characters.

I loved 'Friday Night Lights' because it was totally committed to every facet of its storytelling. Incredible actors, story lines that weren't easy or predictable. It made me laugh, and it broke my heart over and over again.

The narrative shouldn't stop for the song in a musical. The music has to continue the narrative of the storytelling.

I always have something big enough to say as a playwright. It's storytelling.

I think that 'Vinyl''s faster-paced. I think 'Boardwalk' was much more luxurious in its storytelling.

I never made a clear-cut in my mind between theatre and film, as I always felt that at the heart of both of them is storytelling and acting.

The police genre is capable of holding and shaping many forms of storytelling.

With any movie at all the challenge lies in the storytelling.

I've always been a huge fan of Netflix and its storytelling.

I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do.

My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.

I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.

I think more than comedy, probably more than straight drama, I like horror. And horror I think I'm particularly good at. It's a mistake a lot of directors make, especially young directors. They always want to make the kind of movies that they most admire and aren't necessarily sensitive to what they have the best skill set for.

When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.