As so often, a political event involving Donald Trump looks like swinging wildly between melodrama and farce. The Republican National Convention in… — Mark Colvin Copy Share Image
I tend to avoid melodrama. I try to create very realistic settings and very realistic experiences and realistic responses to these experiences.… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters. — Sidney Lumet 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
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
Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation. — Grantland Rice 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
“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
I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama. — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your… — Deepak Chopra 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
One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I don't think 'Twilight' should be approached like 'Batman.' Because it is an invented kind of world, especially this one, I think… — Bill Condon Copy Share Image
But the truth of the matter is, that was fairly, fairly early on in Goebbels' 800 movies that he made in Germany.… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it's truthful and honest. I like what the theater can… — Harold Prince 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
I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the… — Jack Nicholson 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
Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge. — Deepak Chopra 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
What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
