Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.
I'm not a huge drama person. I think I liked them more when I was younger.
It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.
We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.
With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.
A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.
My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.
I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic.
Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.
You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.
Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.
The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to the people. I'm confident that we'll eventually figure it out.