Quotes About Drama

Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the people you saw then as basically extras emerge as real characters in their own right this season, at least to some degree.

In West Delhi I lived a very Punjabi way of life; I have always loved its gregariousness, courage, fun, drama and day-to-day joy of living and celebrating.

Besides acting, I had learnt a lot about entertainment at the Bhartendu Natya Academy, Lucknow and the National School of Drama, Delhi, which I had not been able to put to use. That inspired me to take up direction.

I can't deny 'Fleabag''s a very personal piece, but it's not autobiographical.

I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

My department is to get actors to do stuff.

I'd always suspected my face wouldn't fit in drama departments. And it never did!

The success of a film depends on the screenplay, and nothing else.

If you depict one home and the drama moving around one family, people love it because the characters become identifiable.

I go through spurts of watching 'EastEnders,' feeling depressed and vowing never to watch it ever again.

I'd like roles with more depth.

Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick really changed the way one-hour television looked and the depth of how deep it could cut emotionally.

Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn't have the depth of something that's dramatic. I don't think that's true.

There's a certain rhythm to comedy that is almost like you're dancing and you just go on autopilot, so to speak. There's something just beautifully enjoyable about comedy in that respect. It's a joy to be able to do that. Drama, you get to go to depths that you haven't gone to before.

I love doing comedy. But sometimes, that exists at sort of the mid-level to the high-comedy level of craziness, and I don't necessarily get to plumb the depths of kind of serious acting as often.

'The Descendants' somehow made death and adultery funny at times.

Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising.

The stuff I'm designing, I want my action scenes to be intense.

I usually choose movies that I would want to see. I appreciate drama and if the right script came across my desk, drama you will see.

There aren't that many great female roles in Shakespeare - none that I'd be desperate to play.

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.