Citizen Quote by Todd Haynes

Melodrama is sometimes broadly applied and sometimes derogatorily applied.

— Todd Haynes

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

— Luchino Visconti

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 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 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

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

Ever since I worked on 'Buffy', it's always helped me to find a genre container for something, and I was like, 'Oh, this is…

— Marti Noxon

I think people care a lot more about mood and feeling than they do genre.

— Laufey

YA readers are just not rigid about genre. They're all for the mash-up.

— Leigh Bardugo

I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.

— Miguel

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and…

— Christopher Nolan

I think that people are too... They've become genre snobs.

— David Draiman