"One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama."

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"One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama."

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"But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell burst, the plummet of the car from a bridge."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Drama, Tragedy, Time, Life, Reality

"And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Drama, Suffering, Emotion, Tragedy, Tears

"But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Drama, Life, Control, Awareness, Reality

"Oh, this is the most TRAGICAL thing that ever happened to me!"

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Drama, Tragedy, Emotion, Expression, Intensity

"I feel sorry and for the both characters the drama for the girl, which was unknown was one very big, for the father who knows what has happened to him... I try to explore him little deeper, but so far to go in the darker without a light...!?"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Drama, Regret, Truth, Wisdom, Today

"Exaggerating Your Gestures"Have you ever walked through a door and been jumped on by an over-enthusiastic dog with big paws who practically knocked you down? Some people have that effect. Being too flamboyant and over-boisterous can be overkill and push people away. Drama queens and kings have mastered these exaggerations, much to the chagrin of their observers. Remaining intentional in your gestures is a mark of poise, elegance, and maturity."

Susan C. Young, American Author

Drama, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Social

"In fact-Dr. Sheppard!"

Agatha Christie, English Writer

Drama, Medical, Authority, Respect, Confirmation

"He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Drama, Danger, Peril, Effort, Disaster

"You men have none of you any hearts.''If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Drama, Emotion, Heart, Observation, Compassion

"We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Drama, Tragedy, Comedy, Participation, Observation

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"It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue."

Actor, Actors, Faces, Fact, Moments

"I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible."

Life, Film

"Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid who had read the script and wanted to do it."

Irish,

"And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made."

Work, Friend, Writer

"It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s."

Film, Now, Past

"But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie."

Time,

"But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go from there. I don't remember what I changed it to. Duvall is just excellent in it."

Time, Censorship, Children

"I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites."

People, Help, Public, Recreation

"You're torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that's really going to screw up the screenplay. And yet, how are you going to communicate it to people who really don't understand the process?"

People,

"Of course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough."

Old, Politicians, Ugly