Dramatic Quote by Bill Condon

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

— Bill Condon

I don't get the point in a lot of biopics, they're boring. You know what's gonna happen. You're just watching actors show off.

— Samantha Morton

It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but…

— James Toback

I don't think people should do biopics of living people. I'm totally opposed to that.

— Patti Smith

It is not that I am only looking at doing biopics. But of course, as an actor, I always love portraying real-life characters because…

— Rajkummar Rao

I don't think it's a very nice idea [making biopic] at all. I don't think my life is that interesting.

— Kate Bush

I just have no interest in making a biopic. No offence to biopics, it's just not where my mind goes.

— Marielle Heller

We don't necessarily want to do a biopic. Mostly because it's like, 'Big deal. Band gets together and gets big. Then the excesses come…

— Charlotte Caffey

People have said, 'You don't need to do any more biopics. You don't need to play any more real people.' I don't agree with…

— Chadwick Boseman

I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that…

— Ted Danson

The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a…

— Gus Van Sant

There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic…

— Jerry B. Jenkins