Dramatic Content Quotes

Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings.

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.

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.

But 'Brigsby Bear' was really important to me, because I wanted to tackle something dramatic.

At the end of the day, I am not a heart surgeon - I am not saving lives - although emotionally, we have to take it there. Yes, there is tough subject matter in 'The Innocents,' but in-between takes, we were laughing and living in the moment. So when I come off set, I just get on with everyday life, like being a brother.

Some people could say, "I'd like something that's super dramatic and miserable and made me cry and made me sad forever" but that's not my taste.

I'm a big fan of unflinching drama and bold drama. If you shy away from dark subject matters, there's only certain places for TV drama to go. If there are shows that can break through that and be brave, those are the shows that I personally enjoy watching. I try and do work that I would watch.

There's no way around it - drama is very difficult to shoot. It's very heavy and something that you carry with you for the course of the day.

The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

In terms of content, you can make a problem for yourself, I mean, make the contest difficult, let's say, with certain subject matter that is inherently dramatic.

What the Americans want to see is life in their drama. Life of all sorts: hard lives, easy lives, or lives which, like most of ours, are a mixture of the two.

A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.