(Oct. 2007) Melodrama is a much maligned genre. And I hope we can bring it back into fashion. I always think of melodrama as the thing we are all capable of that`s swept under the rug.
Sidney Lumet
(Oct. 2007) Melodrama is a much maligned genre. And I hope we can bring it back into fashion. I always think of melodrama as the thing we are all capable of that`s swept under the rug.
Sidney Lumet
If one of the girls came to me before she had finished high school and announced that she had intended to marry a boy with no job and little education, I`d forbid it - just like a stern father in a melodrama. - Photoplay, October 1962
Robert Conrad
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
I`m obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a happy experience. But my feeling towards the fans is that they delivered me from darkness.
Tom Baker
I think that`s what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There`s no melodrama; there`s no device, It`s just about a hu...
Jack Nicholson
Every week we had a different story and setting. Some were costume and period; some were modern. Some were comedy; some were tragedy. Some were melodrama. They were all different.
Douglas Fairbanks
[Xiu Xiu have a taste for discord — atonal arrangements filled with foghorns, tape hisses, and violent beats and topped off by Stewart’s whispery vocals and the melodrama of his confessional lyrics. The latter have inspired open-mouthed fandom from se...
Michael Stewart
Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama.
Michiko Kakutani
