Drama Quotes - Page 14

• My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

  Donald Barthelme

  Mother, Father, Wicked

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• I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know.

  Tennessee Williams

  Play, Stories, Poet

  Tennessee Williams, David Ernest Roessel (2007). “The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams”, p.21, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it - drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.

  Willem de Kooning

  Horse, Pain, Eye

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• Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Doors, Perception, Fiction

  "Ursula K. Le Guin, The Art of Fiction No. 221". Interview with John Wray, www.theparisreview.org. Fall 2013.

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• I capture reality, never pose it. But once captured, is it still reality? I've always tried to play with the false impression of reality, with the ambiguity of appearances. Things are what they seem to be, or maybe something else. I use people as unconscous actors in little dramas they don't know they're in. These pictures are about Earthlings, but I'll let you in on a secret: I'm an Earthling myself.

  Richard Kalvar

  Reality, Play, People

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• Everybody loves a cliffhanger. There's great drama in elections, and the sporting analogy is very apt. There is a lot at stake for both parties and for the country. And CNN will be there to report it all, no matter how long it goes.

  Andrew Morse

  Country, Party, Long

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• I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

  Peter Billingsley

  Commitment, Thinking, Actors

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• The thing I always say to any writer that I'm working with is: Just make sure that in any argument, EVERYONE is right. I want every single person arguing a righteous side of the argument. That makes interesting drama.

  David Fincher

  Interesting, Sides, Want

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• The functional freedom that anybody can buy a gun and go out and murder a lot of people at a McDonald's is prevalent, yes. But through the effects of TV and interactive video systems and so forth, we'll also have the freedom to pretend to be a mass murderer for the evening. I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer controlledthe TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.

  J. G. Ballard

  Gun, Reality, Mcdonalds

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• Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Men, Habitat

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.48, RosettaBooks

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• Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Lying, Writing, Reality

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• IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA.

  David Mamet

  Writing, Character, Speak

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• I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.

  Willem de Kooning

  Horse, Pain, Integrity

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• So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Rocks, Zest, Looks

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, p.364, Courier Corporation

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• The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Russia, Too Much, Enough

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• He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Vegetables, Humans, Envied

  Emile M. Cioran (1970). “The fall into time”, Crown

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• Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live, in a spirit of humility and respect for the facts and for history. What as the meaning of ROME, OPEN CITY? We were emerging from the tragedy of the war. We had all taken part in it, for we were all its victims. I sought only to picture the essence of things. I had absolutely no interest in telling a romanticized tale along the usual lives of film drama. The actual facts were each more dramatic than any screen cliche.

  Roberto Rossellini

  War, Taken, Humility

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• Paintings may not have nearly the power to convert people that the printed or spoken word has, but each man has his part to play in the human and divine drama - some persons just a few lines, others whole pages. To refuse to play one's role at all is not the answer. It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

  William Kurelek

  Men, Light, Play

  William Kurelek, Joan Murray (1983). “Kurelek's vision of Canada”, McClelland & Stewart

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• Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

  James Broughton

  Inspirational, Dance, Children

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• These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Running, Garden, Years

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• Commit to growing yourself. Do not avoid problems and or complain about problems. Don't let them bother you. In fact, don't even call them problems; refer to them as "challenges" or "situations". Let go of the emotion and drama you create when you don't get what you want. Just stay present and handle one situation at a time with an open mind and an open heart. Trust yourself and in the universe that everything will work out in the end.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Letting Go

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Feb 05, 2014

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• You have to smile after making trouble. This way you get in less trouble.

  EunB

  Way, Trouble

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• Good drama must be drastic.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Theatre, Theater, Drastic

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• For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing.

  Romany Malco

  Comedy

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 19, 2012.

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• This is business: they don't care about your lyrics;
  The better you sell, the better future for their children.
  Controversy sells, so they support conflict,
  Makes more progress, means more profit.
  An artist gets killed, they say they're 'so sorry,'
  Meanwhile, they tell you the date of his next project.
  What a life...death made them more profit:
  Record companies get paid for your drama.

  Cormega

  Children, Sorry, Rap

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