Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.

I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.

These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.

It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.

I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.