Happiness, sadness, being mean and being nice. They're all very close to one another. My goal in my career is to do movies that are both... I hate wh….

I’m too young and ridiculous a person to speak for my generation, but I’d be happy to talk about my own experiences as a generation Y writer. I was r….

Horror is a totally different animal. It's intense. You can do drama or comedies, but in horror, you really have to trick yourself into believing a l….

I never had an aversion because I was active in the drama club. If I had that aversion I certainly wouldn't put myself in the position of being on st….

Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the st….

[I] had gotten to the point where I simply could not make a bad vinaigrette, this was not exactly the stuff of drama. (Even now, I cannot believe Mar….

The great thing about having a serialized drama (like 'Sons of Anarchy') is that I'm allowed to bring up events and circumstances that have happened ….

At drama school, I was always playing the 11-year-old boys..

The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has….

If you said left, then I'd be on the left. If you said right, I'd be on the right. The important thing is not which side, but it's the trust. Your he….

I'll live as a courtesan, not as a woman. I'll embrace any man that comes my way. It's not hard giving your body and not your heart. And I'll take re….

My very first professional job was with a theatre company in 1965 and the first job they gave me was literally shovelling sh*t. I was an assistant st….

Anything has a rhythm to it, comedy or drama. There has to be a musicality to it. And everybody can't play the same instrument, ideally. But I think ….

There are moments of levity. I feel like any great drama has moments of levity, or else it just becomes too hard to watch. 45 minutes of just pain an….

I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range..

Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance..

Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remem….

I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all extreme in on….

And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened….

What initially attracted me to The Seventh Seal was that it had values and characteristics which I was familiar with in other art forms, most notably….

With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive..