Applied Quote by Todd Haynes Download Open image “Melodrama is sometimes broadly applied and sometimes derogatorily applied.” — Todd Haynes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Applied Melodrama Sometimes
I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two. — James Gray Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater. — Luchino Visconti Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men and women… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think when people talk about lighter drama, they tend to use that term, not derogatorily, but 'lighter' means sort of less to a… — Bruno Heller Copy Share Image
I don't know if I ever entertained an academic career, nor did I ever think I'd become a feature film-maker in the market. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Feminist theory has left an indelible mark on my own critical—and creative—thinking . . . For me, everything I questioned about what it meant… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I'm used to always having struggles getting finances together and keeping precarious budgets alive in the independent film world. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
It's funny: I don't feel like I have any particular privileged feeling for the Fifties. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Looking at photographs of New York in 1952, you find a powerfully pre-Eisenhower era - sagging, tired, distressed - and the palette is slightly dissonant. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I think many of the ideas that opened up in the '60s got implemented in the '70s and that certain minority voices that were… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Films like 'The Godfather,' 'Chinatown' and 'The Exorcist' brought a realism and currency and understatement to their genres that we wanted for 'Mildred Pierce.' — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
There were interesting ways that queerness could hide out and get played out pre-Stonewall. It is part of a vast history that is getting… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams. — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut program. I really did… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
“Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of redundancy. But that info is obsolete, like my insults… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
I've taken the experiences that I've had in the theatre and applied them to film and television and now games. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Originally, I think, I wanted to be an actor. But I got into broadcasting by accident, if you will, because I needed money to… — Alex Trebek Copy Share Image
You see the genius that Whitney Houston has as an interpreter of material, and you realize why genius can be applied to only a… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
It wasn't until after college that I started writing. I had just applied randomly for jobs in the media and got one on a… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain… — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
I was very close to my father. At the age of ten I wanted to do plays, and my father was very encouraging. When… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
The notion of 'Queen's English' is usually applied to our pronunciation. — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
Around 17 to 20 years, I became, myself, a poacher. And I wanted to do it, because - I believed - to continue my… — Corneille Ewango Copy Share Image
