Always Quote by David Mamet

If you know exactly what your character knows, its a drama.

— Timur Bekmambetov

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept…

— David Mamet

“Character isn’t something that magically appears simply by virtue of having a birthday and a describable physical identity; it is something that is built…

— Billy Marshall-Stoneking

If you know exactly what your character knows, it's a drama.

— Timur Bekmambetov

I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.

— Nicholas Jarecki

When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are unyielding, you…

— James N. Frey

I think that's what makes characters interesting - when you paint a person into a corner, and you see what they do to get…

— Andre Holland

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.

— Robert Gregory Browne

All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.

— Robert Olen Butler

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

— Sidney Lumet

Drama comes from characters changing. If characters stay the same and nothing changes, there's really nothing to look at.

— Cory Barlog

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself,…

— Anonymous