"You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama."
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"The only thing at the back of my mind is longevity, and I'm really lucky that I've constantly been in work since I left drama school."
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"Conflict is the basis of drama. I guess that goes back as long as time has existed as far as mankind is concerned, dating back to the Greek tragedies or the Old Testament. And violence is a form of conflict, so whether that's catharsis or whether that has some socially damaging effect on audiences - I suppose that would just depend."
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"The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you just go out and try to make one by putting on boots and jumping on a horse and riding off... If you don't have the material, the characters and the things to overcome and conflicts that give life to drama, you don't have it."
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"I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama."
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"Acting is easier and smoother than singing - it's less drama."
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"I liked the drama of getting stoned."
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"You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors."
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"Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!"
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"My dream is to do something like the female Bourne, and do something in that world. To mix that high level of drama with the covert operation, conspiracy theory spy world fascinates me and it's so interesting. It's fun to do it."
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"I don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine."
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"You should not be hovering in the background, inflating the drama. Simply envelop him in love and affection and let him know that you will support his efforts, whatever they are."
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"I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama."
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"When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way."
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"Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during the 1970s], so I hope I did all right. Otherwise, it could be the biggest embarrassment of my life. Also, the story is not linear, it's patchy, like a cubist painting, and there is always the possibility it will not hold together, it will fall apart. The tone is part satire, part serious drama, part tragedy, all mixed together, and it has to hit an emotional core. That's also very scary."
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"I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing."
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"Because all the movies that we tell ourselves we can't make - ballets, westerns, dramas, everything that are the hardest things to make - those are the movies that are not only winning awards which is fantastic, but also those movies that are commercial. We won't see a fascinating season like this for a while."
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"Marvel has this tradition, and I think that Sony has this tradition too, of hiring directors for Spider-Man who are dramatic directors. That are directors who are interested in human beings, in characters, in drama, and who are really good with actors. That kind of feels like a Spider-Man director to me. And because Spider-Man is always as big as the films that are being made at Marvel, it always is character and story. You can never take that out."
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"The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect."
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"Whence had they come The hand and lash that beat down frigid Rome? What sacred drama through her body heaved When world-transforming Charlemagne was conceived?"
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