I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they're high drama. It's also just fun to watch people have honest reactions.
I've been spoilt with 'Emmerdale' over the years. I've had a taste of high drama, action, explosive scenes, emotional scenes and the odd bit of comedy with Bernice.
I think it's hugely important to have a strong episode one; you can lose an audience so quickly now. You can't afford to take the attitude that you will use the first one as an introduction and save the high drama for later.
Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.
Any show that has 'party non-invite' as its central conflict drums up the operatic high drama of a good Russian novel. It's the 'Real Housewives' Crime and Punishment:' first the horror of a non-invitation, and then the shattering aftermath.
(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
It's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama.
I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
I've always felt like the reason I became an actor is because I look for more high drama than what I had at home.
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in the park in 'The Avengers.' It's great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story.
From Abby Lee Miller's intensity and her students' incredible performances to their devoted moms and its high drama, 'Dance Moms' has become one of the most compelling shows on television.
I was a fan of the original 'Dynasty' - the fabulous fashion, the spectacular camp, but also the characters who carried the camp into surprisingly emotional places.
There's very few directors I think in this industry that would pitch to a studio that they wanted to do a multi-layered almost at times existential high action, high drama surreal film that's sort of locked in his mind. And then have an opportunity to do that.
The fact is that war films, by their very nature, are pitched at a high dramatic range.
