I don't think 'Twilight' should be approached like 'Batman.' Because it is an invented kind of world, especially this one, I think it's got to be done with a sense of enjoyment to it I guess more than anything. So I never thought of anything as makin...
Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
'Somewhere in Time' is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. It's super melodrama.
In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.
If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.
Sentimental blackmailing is the melodrama done by heart over our brain.
A phenomenon that a number of people have noted while in deep depression is the sense of being accompanied by a second self — a wraithlike observer who, not sharing the dementia of his double, is able to watch with dispassionate curiosity as his co...
Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two.
In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.
I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man.
The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
Melodrama is something that is created... I don't seen a melodramatic episode of '90210' or any show that relies on that and think, 'Oh, that's life. That's how I experience it.'
All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.
Randal Graves: Melodrama coming from you seems about as natural as an oral bowel movement.
Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance.
We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.
[after Kyun-woo reads one of The Girl's screenplays] Kyun-woo: They have to kiss in the end. The Girl: This isn't a melodrama. It's an action movie. Kyun-woo: You don't know movies. Koreans like melodramas. The Girl: Why? Kyun-woo: Know what novel to...
I'm obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a happy experience. But my feeling towards the fans is that they delivered me from darkness.
For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next.
