If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama. — Jaime Winstone 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
If I feel like crying, I'll just cry in a dream. Something I really try not to do in my waking hours.… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to… — Deepak Chopra 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
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
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
If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the worldis… — Eric Bentley 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
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
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
Melodrama is one of my working tools and it enables me to obtain effects that would be unobtainable otherwise; on the other… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“In serious Victorian fiction, as in Shakespearian tragedy, melodrama normally functions as metaphor. The author finds a vivid equivalent for a reality… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“The quirky little melodrama that unfolded in Bosnia on 28 June 1914 played the same role in the history of the world… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“Although the frightful is, perhaps rightly, conjoined in our minds with the darkly coloured, the harshly dissonant - with bludgeon blows and… — John Franklin Bardin Copy Share Image
“In a sense, and as in melodrama, killing yourself amounts to confessing. It is confessing that life is too much for you… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Shredded feelings are the fuel that feed the machinery of melodrama. And good melodrama just has honest feelings and is honest about… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
“Ma was out back, head in hands, weaving in and out of her heaped-up crap. It was both melodramatic and not. I… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway… — Floyd Dell 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
“We all know starry-eyed romantics like love stories, but few would argue early and intense exposure to sappy melodrama causes a romantic… — Gerard Jones 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
If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Ever since I worked on 'Buffy', it's always helped me to find a genre container for something, and I was like, 'Oh,… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
It's been really important to me to create moments where there's a breath or moments where there's a laugh or moments where… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
“Try to avoid falseness and strain. Write what you really know about. Make it new. Don’t invent melodrama for the sake of… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
ADMIRABLY BOLD. There's something grand about the film's sincerity and the intensity of its emotions and something fresh and bold about the… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
I regard the 'Descendants' as a melodrama, and all scenes have been the trappings to increase the element of romance, I thought.… — Song Joong-ki Copy Share Image
Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
“Tragedy and comedy involve an audience, so they must give--sharing themselves to elicit tears and laughter. Melodrama is not such a strategist.… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
If I had to say the secret recipe for acting melodrama, I think it comes from myself in real life. I have… — Song Joong-ki Copy Share Image
Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
I love 'Glee.' I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
