Melodrama is sometimes broadly applied and sometimes derogatorily applied. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters. — Sidney Lumet Copy Share Image
I think that melodrama is a safe way of suffering, because your suffering is fake. That's why I like melodrama. — Luis Negron Copy Share Image
All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it. — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
“Parker let the letter drop to the floor, an act she often criticized in movies for its melodrama.” — Abby Slovin Copy Share Image
We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I'm part Latin, so everything in the Latin culture is - there's a lot of hyperbole, and there's a lot of melodrama. — Nina Tassler Copy Share Image
Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end. — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
Melodrama is something that is created... I don't seen a melodramatic episode of '90210' or any show that relies on that and… — Peter Horton Copy Share Image
“Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess,… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The… — L.P. Hartley Copy Share Image
The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme… — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the… — Larry King Copy Share Image
So there's a choice that I made to tell stories that are still psychological melodramas about domestic issues. The challenge is to… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that… — Stefan Kanfer Copy Share Image
Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image
I tend not to attempt to describe pain. I don't feel I can comprehend or re-create the personal suffering of others, so… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give my five senses if they could ensure us our… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
It's an ongoing process, in the script, on the set and in the editing room, to make sure you are being true… — Jon Turteltaub Copy Share Image
Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“Melodramas of moral courage provide satisfaction through the comforting fantasy that our own character would hold steady under the most extreme pressure… — Jonathan Shay Copy Share Image
Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
“This melodrama differed from others in that it was not written, it was to be played impromptu, and only once; after that… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“German is a much more precise language than English. Americans throw the word love around for everything: I love my wife! I… — Diana Mauer Copy Share Image
The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W.… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
“It is the custom on the stage: in all good, murderous melodramas: to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
I chose the American ones, more or less the last five years of the silent era, because those are the ones that… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
“A phenomenon that a number of people have noted while in deep depression is the sense of being accompanied by a second… — William Styron Copy Share Image
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