Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Webb

I was in the play 'Fat Pig in the West End,' which is a comedy but has dramatic moments.

Stacey Koerner

What you're seeing is the drama genre, which has been dominant, needing to diversify. Unfortunately, they've all diversified into science fiction.

Eric Anderson

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams.

Tricia Helfer

Sitcom hours are silly easy compared to drama. Whenever an actor on a sitcom complains, I feel like smacking them!

Rick James

KISS hammered home the importance of high drama...I decided to design my show with the same goal; I wanted my fans to remember my show for the rest of their lives.

Reza Aslan

A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens.

Vinnie Jones

I do my independent stuff where it's real acting if you like. Intense, drama stuff. I love me actions.

William Shatner

There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.

Will Ferrell

I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.

Joan Didion

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I love playing with words and texture.

Ricky Gervais

I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture.

Dylan Thomas

The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.

Mario Batali

Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.

Julie Gonzalo

I admire a lot of Spanish filmmakers and actors. I grew up watching a lot of Spanish films and novellas, and there's just so much talent out there.

Martin Freeman

There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.

Dana Brunetti

If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

James Tobin

I think the filmmakers and I were interested in telling stories that weren't well known,

Gael Bernal

I think that films are very transparent in that sense and they really portray the journey that that society is going through.

Todd Phillips

I think any filmmaker looks back and thinks, 'Boy, if we only had four hours more on that day when the sun was going down,' or, 'If we only spent more time and went back.'

Dawn Hudson

I think that's terrific that independent films are getting more and more mainstream press.

Lars Trier

I think technology right now is great, because it makes filming so easy, you know.

Jake Busey

I don't have a favorite role because there's been so many films that I've done that I've really enjoyed.