Melodrama Quotes

We didn't want to make things up. We didn't want to turn this experience into something that was melodrama ... to 'Hollywood' them up. - David Madden

Those things are super important to us. We think a lot about the way the world is detailed, what the sound feels like, what the music is going to be doing. I hesitate to say it, but we like the classic tradition of melodramatic cinema, of trying to create the music and drama of the world. - David Siegel

This may sound melodramatic but I have never, ever worked so hard. The film will be released in a different country every week for the next six weeks. I've just come back from Germany, France and Sweden to be in LA for the nominations and to speak to the American press. - Gavin Hood

They're in a position where they're, I don't know how many games ahead of everybody and it's kind of melodramatic for them. I think they're getting themselves ready for the first round of the playoffs and not worried about where they're going to crack champagne at. - Glendon Rusch

The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses. - Stanley Tucci

The bosoms may not heave as much. There's a lot of hyperbole and there's a lot of melodrama. I think we're going to modify it for our audiences. - Nina Tassler

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less. - Douglas Sirk

Opera is more like melodrama. And the good thing about opera is that if you can accept that people sing instead of talk, then you don't have to go in and out of it. And that means you can have your emotions with you. - Lars Von Trier

One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three. - Elbert Hubbard