Dramatization Quotes

Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.

While the world may be dramatizing, the Scientologists are out there, making the “Saints of yesteryear”, look like little children

Things are rarely as exciting or dramatic as we make them out to be in the press.

When something is dramatized, it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news.

We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.

I suppose drama can either take the place of a novel or can be very closely allied with it. It's quite customary to turn a successful novel into a film or a television series because you can dramatize and pictorialize a novel.

Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.

What I want you to know is that 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a dramatization, not a realistic portrayal of the facts.

You're literally being an actor - you're pretending - and that's not what I like to do.

You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.

Pictures are written, acted, directed, photo­graphed, edited, scored and all that. The screenwriter determines what scenes are in and what scenes are out; decides whether that bit of information is dramatized or just referred to; whether it takes place on or off screen. There are millions of decisions made by the screenwriter.

Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken.

If a film is based on a true story and you don't use anyone's name, you can do what you like.

I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying.

One of the qualities of writing that is not much stressed is its problem-solving aspect, having to do with the presentation of material: how to structure it, what sort of sentences (direct, elliptical, simple or compound, syntactically elaborate), what tone (in art, "tone" is everything), pacing. Paragraphing is a way of dramatization, as the look of a poem on a page is dramatic; where to break lines, where to end sentences.

You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.

Plays have been made of my comics.

You can dramatize your ideas in business or in any other aspect of your life. It’s easy

In theatre, you learn the story is more important than the actor.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.'

'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary.

I don't like docudramas. Documentaries should not go together with fiction, or half-fiction or quarter-fiction. The two should not go together. They cannot mix.

Everything I write about either I have gone through or I know somebody has gone through, so it's very close to me, but sometimes it's about taking those feelings and exaggerating on them a little bit: being a bit more dramatic but still keeping them relatable.