(5 quotes found)
“When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.”
Cedric Hardwicke
“DRAMATIST, n. One who adapts plays from the French.”
Ambrose Bierce
“A dramatist is a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom.”
Kenneth Tynan
“The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.”
Henry James
“I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.”
Howard Barker
