#drama

When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#beating #billy #bite #comedy #crystal

I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#acts #aesthetic #also #always #arena

The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#ancient #drama #hidden #imaginations #into

I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever. ↗

— Edward Norton

#contemporary #devices #dramatic #feel #i

In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story. ↗

— Edward Norton

#certain #disbelief #drama #get #i

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy. ↗

— Deborah Norville

#dramatic #happiness #part #people #wealthy

If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things. ↗

— Gary Numan

#away #dramatic #dreams #i #impossible

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London. ↗

— Richard O'Brien

#drama #drama school #dues #every #i

After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

#beautifully #because #crack #dramatic #dramatic roles

Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work. ↗

— Ivan Reitman

#basis #child #comedy #comes #critical