The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.
I'd actually love to do more comedy, but what I really wanna do is an indie drama - an intense indie road-trip movie.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
The most terrifying thing I ever saw in a cinema, thanks to the carefully built-up drama, was in the ancient black-and-white film 'The Innocents,' based on Henry James's 'The Turn Of The Screw.' My skin actually crawled with horror.
Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.
'Queen Sugar' is a drama about family. It's something that allows us to be ourselves and see the ways that we interact with our own families.
Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this ridiculous invisibility for women between the ages of 40 and 60. Unless you're old enough to play a grandmother, there just aren't the roles.
'Agnivarsha' is not a costume drama like Shashi Kapoor's 'Utsav' or Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 'Devdas.' This one has no elaborate jewellery and clothes. It is sparse and stark.
I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
Juilliard gave me the ability to go and do classical, contemporary, comedy, drama, everything.
So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.
I always have considered Michael Keaton to be a phenomenal actor because he navigates drama and comedy.
A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'
People love scandal; people love drama. They love stripping away the layers to see what's really in there, and they'll do anything - as well as make it up - to get it.
I've only auditioned for one non-culturally specific role. I went through drama school and studied classic texts and played lead roles in 'Measure for Measure' and 'The Importance of Being Earnest' alongside a very culturally diverse group of acting students. But as soon as we graduate and enter the industry, all of those roles fall away.
I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.
Drama school was a lifeline for me, it saved me. I found it very nurturing - I just clung on.
USC Film School always had a real sense of drama and lineage.
I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising.
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.
