Drama Genre Quotes

The aim is to move from doing just action dramas to establishing myself as someone who can do family dramas as well.

From time to time there is a move to do a little less in the way of period dramas, but people rebel. Audiences say we want them. There is a big hunger for them. I don't think it's sentimentality or nostalgia, it's often that they are simply the best stories.

I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.

I don't know that I could do a procedural legal drama and spend all my time in a courtroom talking legal jargon that I don't necessarily understand.

I'd love to star in dark drama that audiences could really relate to.

I am more comfortable doing a drama.

People always think that because of 'Dr. Quinn' that I just play nice family stuff. But the truth of the matter is that 'East of Eden' was a very successful thing for me in the past. I've played a lot of very evil people in my time.

I used to want to be in 'Downton' because I had never been in a period drama, but then I did 'The Suspicions of Mr Whicher' and had to wear one of those frocks and... I didn't feel very comfortable.

I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross, whether it's Brutus doing it to Caesar or Bob Stack doing it to Robert Ryan that defines what kind of drama it is.

I don't think because a story has humor in it means it's brief. For some reason, people think anything that's 30 minutes is a comedy, comedies can be longer or shorter, so can dramas.

I want to do action, romantic comedy, and I love drama.

I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

There's a high head count on 'Homeland.'

As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.

The first Broadway play I ever saw was 'The Bad Seed' by Maxwell Anderson and with Patty McCormack. 'The Bad Seed' was from an extraordinary novel by William March.

'Twilight' and 'Remember Me' couldn't be more different.

I think 'Breaking Bad' is brilliant. Good drama in the U.S. is also so funny and blurs the line between light and dark.

'Teachers' is in no way a realistic soap; we're not trying to do that, which is why we never do 'issues.'

'Lakshya' is a different genre of movie. While 'Dil Chahta Hai' could be categorised as a romantic comedy, this is a war drama.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

I do like comedy and drama.

I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflict, and when I do a comedy, you know, I've found that, like, romantic comedy is the trickiest one, because often it's neither: it's not romantic and it's not funny. So, like, I like a comedy that's biting. It's biting humor or really quirky humor.

I'm really into the detective drama genre.

I write what I call precinct drama, and I tend to write things set in the workplace. Having an institution which gives a workplace its distinctive identity is really important to creating something which feels different.