Cliff Chiang Quotes

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

My films are larger than life.

When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

I would love, more than anything, to do an out-and-out farce with huge physical energy. Just because you're from the minimalist school, it doesn't mean you can't go big.

I overdramatize.

Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

There's no place more theatrical than history.

I really like Braun Strowman. I would turn the volume down on him just a little bit. I think he is a little bit overly animated, and he doesn't have to be. He is already a larger than life character when he wakes up and has a cup of coffee.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

I have brought you 100 million of these!

I like 'Vampire Diaries' because it has great stories.

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

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

I'm prone to hyperbole.

I think theater ought to be theatrical.

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

Hyperbole is not easily dealt with. Usually, it collapses under its own weight.

Classical heroes are usually much larger than life. They're not quite human beings. They're somehow larger than human scale.

All kingdoms look small through an airplane window - little dominions built on quicksand. But looking up from the ground, where most of us stand, they're rather impressive.

Anything I do is as theatrical as I can get it.

People like to see their lives mythologized in some way.

I don't believe in sensationalism, but I do believe in the sensational.

At Wembley, everything is bigger, wider; the atmosphere is different.