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Quotes About Dramas

We're definitely still interested in the Avatar/Korra universe and fantastical world building in general, but I think many of the core themes and tones found in our two kids' series would be present as well in any sort of adult dramas we might be lucky enough to make in the future.
~ Bryan Konietzko
You have antiheroes in dramas, like Tony Soprano. But it's a little bit harder in comedy. You don't see it quite as much.
~ Christopher Miller
There came a day when the Masons, laying aside their stones, became workmen of another kind, not less builders than before, but using truths for tools and dramas for designs, uplifting such a temple as Watts dreamed of decorating with his visions of the august allegory of the evolution of man.
~ Joseph Fort Newton
There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.
~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt
We've seen Shakespeare done a billion times to make it seem relevant today. We love period dramas. We love to long for a time gone by.
~ Claudia Jessie
We don't see a lot of LGBTQ representation in period dramas because there was so much shame around it at the time. The stories that we tell about that time don't tend to focus explicitly on those sorts of characters, which is nonsense because they existed.
~ Sophie Rundle
A study by the Parents Television Council, a media watchdog group, found scenes of graphic violence and gore are increasing in TV dramas - and particularly on NBC.
~ Elizabeth Flock
I smile at the phone, wishing Reggie could see me. 'You're alright then, luv? No dramas?' 'Not a one.' I reach the kitchen. 'Thanks for thinking about me.' 'Gotta look after my girl. Only one I got.' My smile gets even bigger.
~ Bill Condon
The life of King Jeongjo has previously inspired many films and TV dramas. 'The King's Wrath' will show the tough and charismatic sides of the king that have been undermined in past works.
~ Hyun Bin
I really like scripted dramas. My favorite show of all time would have to be 'Lost': I loved how the writers and producers were able to weave the different storylines together; and the acting in that show was incredible.
~ Nick Jonas
I have done a lot of short dramas that are three, four or five episodes and so that makes the filming process similar to the independent film process; it is very intimate, and it is a small cast and a small crew and everyone is there with a common goal and want the best for that project.
~ Ashley Walters
I write tragedies and things when I'm alone. Chekhovian dramas.
~ Julian Barratt
I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.
~ Andrew Davies
Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us.
~ Frank Warren
I did nothing but dramas for seven years in New York. I didn't really start anything comedic until I moved out to L.A. and found The Groundlings.
~ Melissa McCarthy
When I was a young kid, the best stuff on television was always the BBC period dramas - it was what we sat down as a family to watch and what people talked about and looked forward to.
~ Neil Jackson
I think maybe short stories operate in some of the same ways that poems do. They frame single or small moments and elevate those. They give you insight into more minor dramas maybe, dramas between smaller groups of people.
~ Antonya Nelson
I'd love to venture into TV or do some gritty dramas - Guy Ritchie, that kind of thing.
~ Shayne Ward
I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.
~ Bruce Forsyth
I wanted to make a film that wouldn't just appeal to Formula One fans. That's what the great sports documentaries do - 'Hoop Dreams,' 'When We Were Kings' - they're human dramas first, sport second, if at all.
~ Asif Kapadia
Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television? Any new crime drama is going to have, sooner or later, a lot of torture and nasty things that make people flinch. Lots of young people I know shrink and flinch from that kind of thing on television, so I think showing it is a mistake.
~ Ruth Rendell
Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
~ Olympia Dukakis
I love gritty dramas, 'Queen Sugar,' 'True Detective' - stuff like that, but I also love quippy comedies - those multi-cam comedies with incredibly talented and funny casts with perfect comedic timing.
~ Ser'Darius Blain
While you have been waking up to the aroma of coffee brewing, dressing to the hushed rhythm of other people's labor, I have been in the kitchen since I was six and in your kitchen since six this morning. In my life as a minor domestic, a bit character in your daily dramas, I have prepared thousands of omelets. You have attempted three, each effort wasted, a discarded half-moon with burnt-butter craters, a simple dish that in a stark and economical way separates you and me.
~ Monique Truong