Quote

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

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

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.

If I had to say the secret recipe for acting melodrama, I think it comes from myself in real life. I have a belief that when I do melo scenes, I try to make them less cheesy.

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.

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

In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.

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

And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.