Books Quote by William Golding

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them…

— Walter Kirn

I tend to think in dramatic terms. In life, there may be an actual drama, but it would be the fictionalized, imagined drama that…

— Joyce Carol Oates

TV and film are very different media with different requirements. In a TV show, you have actors and fellow writers and directors, who are…

— Howard Gordon

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

— Steven Bochco

I like dramas because there's a big overlap between film and fiction, so I feel relatively qualified to talk about plot and characterisation and…

— Sarah Waters

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal.…

— Alfred Hitchcock

When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and I want…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Dramas for me are where it's at, but a great drama, a great character-driven drama, there's very few of them that get made; there's…

— Josh Stewart

Of course theater will always be associated intimately to literature, but the themes or whatever have to penetrate you by the senses. Theater is…

— Robert Lepage

Drama's made for movies, not reality!

— Hemantsmarty

There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.

— Errol Morris

Drama is made for movies, not reality!

— HOttieDeviL