Drama is about conflict, and it's about putting obstacles in the path of people you who care about.
Passions are generally roused from great conflict.
Drama starts where logic ends.
Those who don't hate evil hate those who do
On a street of right and wrong in every inch of sadness, rocks and tanks go hand in hand with madness.
Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality.
A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible.
When I hear about these terrorist ideologies, they are completely foreign and strange to me. I mean, to me, it's, like, antithetical.
I think that internal conflict works very well, because, after all, all the best drama is fuelled by conflict.
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.
If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
I think my mother was baffled by me. We were polar opposites. She was shy and retiring. I was over-fond of the limelight. Many times in my life, I was conscious of embarrassing her with my carrying on.
