I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.
You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.
In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.
I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
Boys are so much drama.
We are not yet at the point where our size, our being the drama industry, is sufficient to support full time professional crews, and that is very very important.
'Banshee' is the story of a man who gets out of prison, tracks down his long-lost love, and tries to reclaim what was stolen from him years earlier by assuming the identity of a sheriff. I guess you could say it's an explosive action drama - sit down, strap in, and enjoy the ride!
I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama,' I run in the opposite direction.
I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you're thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it.
In families you can find the source of every human drama. It is interesting because the cell of a society, the cell of a country, the cell of humanity - everything lies in the family.
There are other ways to create tension and drama than to have somebody stabbed through the back with a sword.
My auditions for drama school were miserable, but one thing I had on my side, although I had no experience or skill or training, was that I wanted to learn everything.
I played old men back in drama school. It's just now that I'm drawing level with the age of the characters I play, but I'm fine with that, and I've certainly never envied people who became hugely famous when they were young.
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me.
What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.
You need a balance at all times. If the verse is a bit messy, you need it to be less messy right after. It needs to vary. 'Shake It Off' is a good example, where the math behind the drama is pretty clear.
I think that 'Flesh and Bone' represents the dance world very authentically. There's always this aspect of drama put on top of it, and it's showcasing the problems of the dance world, but I've had experiences in reality that were written into the show.
As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in the sublime drama of Creation, I cannot exempt from this duty, and small though it be, I too have a mission to fill, as for example: alleviating the sufferings of my fellowmen.
I was a dance major at NYU, but it wasn't working out. I had friends in the drama department, so I switched.
Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this ridiculous invisibility for women between the ages of 40 and 60. Unless you're old enough to play a grandmother, there just aren't the roles.
I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking speech and drama at school. They were private lessons, and I started doing that. Over the years everyone else dropped out and I just kept going. I loved it.
But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there.
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.
Drama's unhappy, and playing someone unhappy would make me unhappy.
But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.
Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?
The margin between success and drama is fractional.
It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.
The great thing about New York is that you don't have to set out to do anything. Whenever I go without the kids, I walk all day and see the most interesting stuff. There's always some kind of drama playing out.
In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.
What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.
