Drama Quote by Cynthia Addai-Robinson

Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.

— Melissa Harris-Perry

Most actors are drawn towards historical tellings because it's one of the most simple forms of storytelling.

— Ben Barnes

Creating more characters that represent historically marginalized and historically disenfranchised people in television and film is certainly important.

— Asia Kate Dillon

With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.

— Mark Sheppard

Sometimes people get fairly obscure just for the creative license of it, and that can backfire. Iconic stories are iconic for a reason, and…

— Nancy Dubuc

If you think about how broadcast mini-series approach historical events, there is a hagiography. There has been a soft, very glossy idea about history.…

— John Landgraf

We pay too much attention to those grand themes and too little to the particulars of those fleeting moments.

— Anonymous

I think that the dramas that you find in TV are actually a lot more interesting, typically, than what you find in cinema.

— Marc Webb

I love covering stories that have huge historic impacts.

— Wolf Blitzer

I've managed to include only enough historical detail to give the "flavor" of the time period while keeping the characters and story focal.

— Julie Klassen

It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.

— Ned Beauman

Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.

— Alix Kates Shulman