Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
Shake was a dramatist of note; He lived by writing things to quote.
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.
When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.