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Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

People tend not to dwell on drama.

Drama is about conflict, and it's about putting obstacles in the path of people you who care about.

At the heart of drama is conflict.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.

I think that I am interested in the resonance between character drama and high stakes, either situational or political or social or other kind of elevated drama, and I tend to find that those things combust.

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions.