Pentameter Quotes

The Red Curtain requires some basics. One is that the audience knows how it will end when it begins, it is fundamental that the story is extremely thin and extremely simple - that is a lot of labour. Then it is set in a heightened, created world. Then there is a device - the heightened world of Strictly Ballroom, Verona beach. Then there is another device - dance or iambic pentameter or singing, and that`s there to keep the audience awake and engaged. The other thing is that this piece was to be a comic tragedy. This is an unusual form, there`s been a few goes at it - (like) Dancer in the Dark - but it`s not common in Western cinematic form.

Well, it`s pretty hard for them to sack me and put someone in to do iambic pentameter in modern dress, you know? What we`ve made, we only have one iron-clad guarantee every single time which is it will never work and no-one will ever see it. Because it has gone on to more than pay its bill, and, by varying degrees, it has been acclaimed, the notion that the studio interferes... I like to engage with them, I don`t have a producer... There`s a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen. But then finally we listen to ourselves.

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.