Drama Development Quotes

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.

Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.

The development process is not that simple... When I started working at Fox in '92, the company had decided that dramas were dead: they weren't viable businesses and because newsmagazines were so efficient to produce and financially so much more tolerable than a drama. So that year, our company developed very few dramas.

When I was in drama development, you hear anywhere between 500 to 600 pitches a season, and you do feel like you hit the wall. But I will never say, 'No, I won't hear that.'

My parents brought us up in a very clever way, which was that they saw what we were interested in naturally, and then they encouraged whatever that may be. When I started sharing a keen interest in drama and the theater, instead of steering me away from it, they encouraged me to see plays and think about drama school.

The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.

Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based.

Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa D'Amour, workshopped it.