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 define melodrama as truth uninhibited. It's the kind of truth we dream about. Rather than melodrama being exaggerated, it's actually uninhibited.… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
'Somewhere in Time' is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. It's super melodrama. — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce… — George Bernard Shaw 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
Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically,… — Irving Babbitt 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
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
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
“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
“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
So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive,… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
THIS ACTION THAT I FORESEE has nothing to do with melodrama It is that life as lived by me now is a… — Francesca Woodman Copy Share Image
In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas. — Bong Joon-ho Copy Share Image
Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two. — James Gray Copy Share Image
“You have more zeal than good taste, Martín. The disease afflicting you has a name, and that is Grand Guignol : it… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think… — Larry Hagman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet for, how much… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
