Being true Quote by Edwin Land

The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's…

— Stanley Kubrick

We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.

— Jerry Bruckheimer

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

— Allen Tate

Persuasive communication involves enthusiasm, animation, audience participation, authenticity and spontaneity.

— John C. Maxwell

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of…

— Tom Stoppard

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama

— Edward Bond

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

— Sonny Chiba

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

I believe that our entertainment shapes us and we shape our entertainment, and that ongoing dialogue is a fact of nature.

— Jerrika Hinton

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is…

— Edward Bond

We have the ability to change people's minds and hearts - that's what we want to do with theatre. That's what theatre does... period.

— Gavin Creel

Drama began as the act of a whole community. Ideally, there would be no speculators. In practice, every member of the audience should feel…

— W. H. Auden