Melodrama Quotes · Page 2

Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

— Irrfan Khan

I think that as a kid I was pretty drawn to melodrama.

— Phil Elverum

“I doubt whether any hack, under pressure, could pen such atrocious melodrama,”

— John Kennedy Toole

'Somewhere in Time' is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. It's super melodrama.

— Mark Duplass

What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.

— e. e. cummings

“Simon Templar was a man who couldn’t help spreading melodrama all around him like an infectious disease.”

— Leslie Charteris

In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.

— Bong Joon-ho

And I have two eyes. I’ve seen that little melodrama play out between you and that other tracker. Fish? Flounder? What’s his…

— Amanda Hocking

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

— Joyce Maynard

Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama.

— Michiko Kakutani

Melodrama is one of my working tools and it enables me to obtain effects that would be unobtainable otherwise; on the other…

— Graham Greene

There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama…

— Nicholas Sparks

I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic…

— Guy Maddin

[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be,…

— Max Nordau

Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring…

— Tom Stoppard

I feel the need to chastise myself. A movie that's a partial musical, full-on melodrama, should require a tremendous amount of planning.

— Guy Maddin

What's interesting is that Citizen Kane was meant as an anti-fascist/anti-capitalist melodrama and for Donald Trump it becomes just another kind of…

— Errol Morris

On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of…

— Bobby Jones

“How shall I typify what happened? Passion play? Somewhat. Weird tale? Indubitably. Horror story? Pretty close. Grotesque melodrama? Certainly. Black comedy? Your…

— Richard Matheson

To be intuitive, we must cultivate our sense of humor and look for reasons to laugh everywhere. We become so self-absorbed and…

— Sonia Choquette

I came to this project and 'Far from Heaven' from completely different vantage points. 'Heaven' was of course about the Douglas Sirk…

— Todd Haynes

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that…

— Camille Paglia

Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The London season is like one of those Drury Lane melodramas in which marriage is always the ending. And no one ever…

— Lisa Kleypas

“Producers increasingly insert overblown, hyper-emotional scenes even when the underlying conflict could be portrayed with calm or rational dialogue. The intent is…

— E. Ravago

“The three of you are enough to drive a mara mad. 'She can wear my shirt,’" she growled in imitation of Nash."No,…

— Rachel Vincent

With 'Carol,' I was just really looking at and thinking about the love story as a genre, not the domestic melodrama.

— Todd Haynes

If I were to do a drama again, I would really like to work on a fatal melodrama, like a love that…

— Song Hye-kyo

Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two.

— James Gray

Somewhere in Time is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. Its super melodrama.

— Mark Duplass

The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I wanted to make an album that would make other people feel the way I felt listening to 'Melodrama.'

— Maisie Peters

One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.

— Elbert Hubbard

I love the flamboyance, the melodrama, the bloody theatre of Russian history.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“He holds his hands up to keep the Reapers from advancing. I forgot Zack's flair for the melodramatic. ~Exposing ELE”

— Courtney Nuckels

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

— Jaime Winstone

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.

— Luchino Visconti

Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.

— Simon Barnes

I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man.

— Todd Haynes