Melodrama Quotes · Page 2

Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

— Irrfan Khan

History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.

— Robert Penn Warren

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

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.

— Sidney Lumet

I think that melodrama is a safe way of suffering, because your suffering is fake. That's why I like melodrama.

— Luis Negron

Melodrama is sometimes broadly applied and sometimes derogatorily applied.

— Todd Haynes

Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.

— Gay Hendricks

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

— Baz Luhrmann

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

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

[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

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

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

When I was a teenager in Milwaukee in the 1980s, life was pretty boring, and I found myself riveted by the sheer…

— Rick Perlstein

I work intentionally to try and make dense, complex things. We can move between genres and forms, from something that looks like…

— Elizabeth Price

Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big,…

— James Gray

As a songwriter, I was really into pulling away from the melodrama and the overdramatic type of writing that I was previously…

— Katie Stelmanis

“Melodramas of moral courage provide satisfaction through the comforting fantasy that our own character would hold steady under the most extreme pressure…

— Jonathan Shay

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

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

Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around…

— Kenneth Lonergan

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

“This melodrama differed from others in that it was not written, it was to be played impromptu, and only once; after that…

— Upton Sinclair

Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest…

— Ang Lee

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

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of…

— Richard Flanagan

“Parker let the letter drop to the floor, an act she often criticized in movies for its melodrama.”

— Abby Slovin

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

— Luchino Visconti

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

— Irving Babbitt

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

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

— Simon Barnes

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Maisie Peters

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

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 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