Habits Quote by Catriona McPherson

“Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost.”

— Barry B. Powell

“They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the…

— E. Lockhart

“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed or humiliated, disrespected and…

— James Gilligan

“I am appalled by the potentialities of drama that are still contained in these feeble bodies.”

— Henry Miller

“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their…

— Oscar Wilde

When you have an actor on set who is playing themselves in a movie that is about the most cathartic, most traumatizing event of…

— Holly Hunter

“Regardless of the subject of my films … I am looking for a way of evoking in audiences feelings similar to my own: the…

— Krzysztof Kieślowski

“We think we know people, and dismiss the scenes as aberrations, as the lightning strikes of madness, but surely we are wrong. Surely these…

— Andrew Sean Greer

“Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.”

— Joseph Campbell

“Tragedy, however, is an imitation not only of a complete action, but also of incidents arousing pity and fear.”

— Aristotle

“At the first time, I do my best to try again against the inevitable tragedy. In the second time, I become disgusted towards the…

— Fredrica Bernkastel