Art Quote by Douglas Sirk

I tend to avoid melodrama. I try to create very realistic settings and very realistic experiences and realistic responses to these experiences. Melodrama is…

— Nicholas Sparks

I define melodrama as truth uninhibited. It's the kind of truth we dream about. Rather than melodrama being exaggerated, it's actually uninhibited. And it's…

— Guy Maddin

In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.

— Bong Joon-ho

THIS ACTION THAT I FORESEE has nothing to do with melodrama It is that life as lived by me now is a series of…

— Francesca Woodman

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of…

— Manuel Puig

But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them…

— Pete Townshend

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

— Len Wein

I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of…

— Brad Holland

If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz…

— Clint Eastwood

One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while…

— Harold Rosenberg

In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime…

— John Divola

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes…

— Charlton Heston