Art Quote by James Gray

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were…

— Douglas Sirk

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

— Luchino Visconti

The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they…

— Stanley Tucci

“Tragedy and comedy involve an audience, so they must give--sharing themselves to elicit tears and laughter. Melodrama is not such a strategist. It meets…

— Yiyun Li

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

“In serious Victorian fiction, as in Shakespearian tragedy, melodrama normally functions as metaphor. The author finds a vivid equivalent for a reality too elaborate…

— Ian Gregor

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

Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two.

— James Gray

Turn your melodrama into a mellow drama.

— Ram Dass

Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is…

— Stefan Kanfer

Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama.

— Michiko Kakutani

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