“I went to California to study drama and study film, still with the goal of going back to China. I stayed for at least four years and then I visited China. I was a little lost. I was very homesick. I took a risk, I went back to China and realized that I have actually changed, that China as a whole wasn't what I imagined it to be.”
Joan Chen
“What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning”
Barbara De Angelis
“Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.”
David Mamet
“Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading”
Igor Stravinsky
“In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.”
Jean-Claude Van Damme
“That's a wonderful film a lot of people love for the comedy and drama of it.”
Rob Bibler
“It's a channel for the creation generation. It's not just TV and film, it's dance, music, theater, drama. It's art.”
Shane Walker