Bill Condon

I don't think 'Twilight' should be approached like 'Batman.' Because it is an invented kind of world, especially this one, I think it's got to be done with a sense of enjoyment to it I guess more than anything. So I never thought of anything as making fun of it, but kind of reveling in the melodrama of it. It's a melodrama.

American Director

Deepak Chopra

The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.

American Speaker

Kenneth Lonergan

Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life.

American Playwright

Stanley Tucci

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.

American Actor

Song Joong-ki

I regard the 'Descendants' as a melodrama, and all scenes have been the trappings to increase the element of romance, I thought. In that sense, I am very satisfied and have great respect for the decisions of the writers.

South Korean Actor

Marti Noxon

Ever since I worked on 'Buffy', it's always helped me to find a genre container for something, and I was like, 'Oh, this is where the movie melodrama has gone to. It's gone to YA.

American Writer

Thomas Sowell

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

American Economist

Richard Flanagan

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.

Australian Novelist

P. J. O'Rourke

The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.

American Comedian

Jerome Charyn

I can say without melodrama or malice that Hollywood ruined my life.

American Author

Melodrama emphasizes extreme emotions or stereotypical characters to appeal to emotions.

Overly Emotional

Characters in a melodrama often have intensified personalities, like a villainous antagonist or a virtuous protagonist.

Exaggerated Characters

Melodramas typically showcase clear moral conflicts with obvious good and evil sides.

Simple Morality

Calling a situation a 'melodrama' usually means it's unnecessarily dramatic, not serious.

Not Literal

In melodramatic situations, reactions are more intense than the circumstances warrant.

Emotional Exaggeration

Describing real-life events as 'melodrama' can be dismissive or suggest overreaction.

Pejorative Sense

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