I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama.
I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
Yeah, all drama teachers are very effusive, very demonstrative, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical.
My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in drama. I like everything.
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.
I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.
I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
When I want to relax, I plop down on my couch and watch some great movie, usually a British drama - anything with Colin Firth.
The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.
'King of California' was just, I thought, a really great, fresh, original kind of script. I loved the tone, the mix of tragedy, comedy, and drama, and that it was a good part.
I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.
I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.
I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.
A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.
My life is full of drama, and I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.
What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
I don't know anybody who walks through life all the time in the doldrums, constantly serious and morose. But that's become what we generalize as drama.
Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.
