Gertrude Atherton Quotes

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the worldis provided by a writer. Farce is acted. The writer's contribution seems not only absorbed but translated.... One cannot imagine melodrama being improvised. The improvised drama was pre-eminently farce.

I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.

I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

The fact is, it was a big show. We were a part of that show. Everybody watches for different reasons. There were some people who were tuning in that day to see what was going on with other characters.

I love a really good storyline.

Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.

In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.

I love drama - mum calls me a Drama Queen!

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

I like a drama.

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.

There's no place more theatrical than history.

I think any story line that involves a relationship is going to be interesting.

I tend to be melodramatic and super self-involved.

In a drama, you generally have to be very faithful to the script and the storyline, and it all has to fit together, and it's weighty and serious.

I love telling the stories that we tell. I love playing the characters that we play.

I am a drama queen!

For me, drama is conflict.