Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ethan Hawke

Right now, if you're interested in being a dramatic actor, they're not making that many just regular dramas. Movies have to have some other thing going on.

Ethan Hawke

I'm always trying to look for how I can find human stories that aren't just dramas.

Errol Morris

You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.

Errol Morris

There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.

Errol Morris

I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary.

Errol Morris

A lot of the distinctions that we make between drama and documentary are spurious. We're deeply confused about these issues. About the difference between the two, about where documentary ends and drama begins.

Erich von Stroheim

It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.

Erika Slezak

There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn.

Carmen Electra

I like everything loud, over the top, dramatic.

Ewan McGregor

There's something that happens where you go, if you're lucky, goodness me, from film to another film to another film. And you can sort of feel that if you step off that treadmill, it might all go horribly wrong and you might never be employed again, you know. And I suddenly thought that that's not necessarily the case. And I also thought we make drama as actors about people in the world and that if you are on that treadmill, you start making films about other films.

Ewan McGregor

This middle-budget drama movies are just gone.

Ewan McGregor

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

Ewan McGregor

I think my home is in that sort of the part of cinema that's disappeared is where I lived, that sort of mid-budget you know, drama. I suppose that's what I am known for.

Evan Peters

I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason.

Evan Peters

It's cool to see everybody come together and do their own thing, but there's never been any drama. I never saw any on the X-Men set, and I never saw any on the Horror Story set.

Eva Green

A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.

Eva Green

At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.

Jeremy Northam

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.

Jeremy Piven

I think people are gravitating towards these period dramas because I think they're looking for a simpler time.

Jenifer Lewis

But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind.

Jenna Elfman

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

Jenna Elfman

Drama is not hard for me. It just didn't seem hard.

Glen Mazzara

I created a show called 'Crash' for Starz, which was their first original drama, and that was not a good experience. I had a great time working with the cast and crew, but it was a young network and an intrusive studio, and to be honest I didn't really enjoy the movie 'Crash.

Glenda Jackson

comedy ... is much harder to do than drama. It's not true that laugh and the world laughs with you. It's very hard to make a group of people laugh at the same thing; much easier to make them cry at the same thing. ... That's why great comic acting is probably the greatest acting there is.

Hank Azaria

I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.

Fred Rogers

The real drama of life is never centerstage. It's always in the wings.

Fred Rogers

I feel that the real drama of life is never center stage, it's always in the wings. It's never with the spotlight on, it's usually something that you don't expect at all.

Gus Van Sant

The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.

Gus Van Sant

I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism.

Gus Van Sant

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

Jessica Biel

It's the same kind of preparation you do for something like this you do for anything. It doesn't matter if it's a drama or a comedy, the need to get the emotion and the character arc across is way harder in something like this so was more of a preparation.

Jayne Meadows

My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.