Quotes About Drama

People are always so surprised when I want to do dramatic stuff.

I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.

When I watch television, I want to be surprised.

Nothing surprises me when it comes to people in the entertainment business.

What I love is that 'Game of Thrones' is always up for surprises.

Pro wrestling fans love surprises, so let's surprise them, and not just give them the old stuff.

On 'EastEnders,' if someone gets surprising news on the phone, the scene ends with them looking at their handset in amazement. No one in real life does that.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

Even with a stable character, you want something surprising to happen, hopefully because that's what the camera loves the most. That's what is great about film.

'Better Call Saul' gets surprisingly dark.

I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.

I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.

The butler went away among the abominable plants. The General spoke again, slowly, using his strength as carefully as an out-of-work show-girl uses her last good pair of stockings.

My God, you big dark handsome brute! I ought to throw a Buick at you.

When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.

A dark woman with a sharp nose opened her mouth to yell and no sound came from her. There was the instant when nobody makes a sound, when it almost seems as if there will never again be any sound—after the sound of a gun. (Guns at Cyrano's)

The big man leaned down from his hips and bent his knees a little and breathed in my face. 'What for did you call me Hemingway, pally?' 'There are ladies present.

Guns never settle anything," I said. "They are just a fast curtain to a bad second act.

They don't have gangsters in Bay City. They're all working in pictures.

Et si je me mettais dans la cage, dit Turandot, et que ce soit Laverdure qui me porte ? [...] –Alors au revoir, les gars ! dit Laverdure. –Tu causes, tu causes, dit Turandot, c'est tout ce que tu sais faire. Et ils s'envolèrent dans la direction Bastille

Josie walked slowly toward the jury. She stood close as if she was

Stories move in from the shadows to the limelight. And though the stage presents the drama of our powerlessness, the shadows offer the secret of our power.

Well, I could have predicted that something like this was going to happen. You can't go anywhere with Mama without things getting nuts. If it's going along too smooth she will invent something just to stir things up. Sometimes we'll be downtown