George Pierce Baker Quotes

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

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.

The drama is a great revealer of life.

The essence to me of all good drama is argument.

I would like to write a play.

It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.

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

Drama and comedy, to me, are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.

Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.

The important thing is the storytelling and having a script that makes you feel you're living and breathing through the characters.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

Now I can't wait to write my next play.

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.

On occasion, a well-constructed drama can do what no reality or news program can do, what Shakespeare does brilliantly, is it can show both sides' opinions.

Roles don't fascinate me. It is the narrative, the screenplay that is fascinating.

Normally, you spend the play convincing people of the world and the characters.

It doesn't excite me as a writer to write some swearing or sex scenes, because they don't have any emotional content.

People don't come to the theatres to watch a kiss. It's the story that appeals to them.

I have a certain kind of a taste for what will make a good movie or a good play or theater.

Good drama must be drastic.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

Whether you're writing a horror show or a James Bond film, I think what bubbles beneath is interesting characterization. The colors that emerge through storytelling is what a dramatist does. There's always got to be something bubbling underneath that will erupt at some point.