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"We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife."
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"You men have none of you any hearts.''If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough."
"Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing."
"One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama."
"Having second thoughts? Puck's voice was soft and dangerous, a far cry from his normal flippancy. "I thought we put this behind us for now."Never, I said, matching his stare. "I can't ever take it back, Goodfellow. I'm still going to kill you. I swore to her I would. Lighting flickered overhead, and thunder rumbled in the distance as we faced each other with narrowed eyes. "One day, I said softly. "One day you'll look up, and I'll be there. That's the only ending for us. Don't ever forget."
"In fact-Dr. Sheppard!"
"You took Theo's title and his home," West continued in appalled disbelief, "and now you want his wife.""His widow," Devon muttered."Have you seduced her?""Not yet."West clapped his hand to his forehead. "Christ. Don't you think she's suffered enough?"
"We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next."
"My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that."
"I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection."
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"I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word."
"The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle."
"The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create."
"People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want."
"Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status."
"Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills."
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