Confusing Quote by James Gray

Melodrama is sometimes broadly applied and sometimes derogatorily applied.

— Todd Haynes

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

I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.

— Luchino Visconti

Turn your melodrama into a mellow drama.

— Ram Dass

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

If I had to say the secret recipe for acting melodrama, I think it comes from myself in real life. I have a belief…

— Song Joong-ki

Most acting is very melodramatic. It's not what you see in people.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Shredded feelings are the fuel that feed the machinery of melodrama. And good melodrama just has honest feelings and is honest about the way…

— Guy Maddin

If I were to do a drama again, I would really like to work on a fatal melodrama, like a love that can't be.

— Song Hye-kyo

Since I'm not a second Marx or Freud who can offer people alternatives, I have to let them keep their own wrong feelings. And…

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

But on the other hand, I think as an actor, you tend to want to look at the darker parts of your psyche.

— Renee O'Connor

There is a difference between dramatizing your sensibility and your personality. The literary works which we think of as classicsdid the former. Much modern…

— Paul Horgan