Absurd Quote by Stanley Tucci

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

Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the…

— James Gray

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

— Luchino Visconti

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

— Sidney Lumet

“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

It's been really important to me to create moments where there's a breath or moments where there's a laugh or moments where there's real…

— Sarah Polley

It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

— Clint Eastwood

Well, I think it's important to have some kind of a narrative engine that pushes the audience through the landscape. But I love films…

— Panos Cosmatos

I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I…

— Jeff Abbott

There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

I feel certain negative characters, or the ones with grey shades, provide more scope for acting. These characters help you excel. And such interesting…

— Dino Morea