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Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two.

Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance.

I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man.

Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't.

Truth is life's most precious commodity.

Truth is eternal, unchanging, though circumstances may and do operate to give a different colour to it, in our view, at different times. And truth will prevail, and those who do not yield to it must be destroyed by it.

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

Truth is quite constricting, in a way. You endlessly see at the start of a film 'This is a true story'.