Peter Morgan

Every dramatist will tell you that they know deep down what happened in the course of making that film and to what degree they took steps that were convenient and to what degree they took steps in telling their story that were dishonest. You know in your heart of hearts.

British Writer

Oliver Stone

I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.

American Director

Alice McDermott

I think it's handy for a dramatist of any sort, if I can call myself that, to make use of weddings and wakes, to make use of those moments and those rituals that cause us to pause and look back or look forward and understand that life has changed.

American Writer

Sean Baker

Because I'm a dramatist, I'm allowed to take liberties, but I want my films to be based in truth, and it's very important to me that the community we're focusing on is happy with the film. From an ethical point of view, that's everything.

Howard Barker

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.

British Playwright

Glenda Jackson

I find it extraordinary that contemporary dramatists don't find women interesting. Women are rarely, if ever, the central dramatic engine; they're there as an adjunct, and that hasn't changed at all.

British Actress

Thornton Wilder

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.

American Novelist

Mark O'Donnell

Everybody has parents. As a dramatist, whenever you write a character, you must write their parents as well, even if the parents aren't there.

Sam Wanamaker

Shakespeare is undoubtedly the greatest dramatist the world has known, and 95 countries translate his work into their languages.

American Actor

Oscar Wilde

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

Irish Poet

The term 'dramatist' implies a deep understanding and passion for the craft of drama creation.

Artistic Connotation

'Dramatist' often holds high prestige and respect in cultures valuing theatre and literature.

Cultural Importance

A dramatist may also direct or produce plays, not just write them.

Not Just Writers

'Dramatist' can describe someone who adds unnecessary drama to real-life situations.

Metaphorical Use

In everyday contexts, calling someone a 'dramatist' may suggest they are creating trouble.

Negative Connotation

The term can imply a person has a dramatic personality or a flair for exaggeration.

Personality Traits

 That the people involved in this organization are insane. It's our job as dramatists to hold a mirror up to society and to Treat with these sometimes extremely difficult got subjects that are of current importance and I suppose our

What It's Like to Make a...

 for decades; a degree in drama is what would most prepare you for the adult -- corporate world." But she said, "I'm not interested in that, anyway. I don't want to teach drama, I want to become a dramatist. I want to write plays.

A lyrical bridge between...

 as the Greek dramatist Aristophanes wrote in 420 B.C. and nephology, the study of clouds, remains a daydreamer's science, aptly founded by a thoughtful young man whose favorite activity was staring out of the window at the sky.