Quotes About Authenticity

I try to get a degree of realism in my music.

I've always wanted to do pieces that have an integral sense of realism and aren't just there for titillation.

Social realism takes research.

In 'Min Kamp,' I wanted to see how far it was possible to take realism before it would be impossible to read.

I like movies where everything is dealt naturally and with a sense of realism.

Guy Ritchie likes to ground things in realism.

I'm in the game of realism so happy endings probably feel a little bit too neat for life.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.

I'm very much a realist.

I'm a realist and I always have been.

I like to think I'm some savage realist.

I write from what I take to be the realist's point of view, looking at life as it really is - or the way I see it to be.

I'm a realist about who really reads books and who acts like they read books.

'Line of Duty' is a social realist drama, so it's set in a world that has the recognisable features of the authentic world we see around us.

I'm a realist.

I don't want to have to look good all the time - that's not realistic.

Sometimes movies gloss over things, and it was important to me that this was realistic.

'Shameless' is just such a realistic show.

My responsibility is to present things in a way that is realistic and true to the multifaceted world I've known... This is how I think the world is, not how it should be.

I've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge.

I just feel like you're being realistic if you can laugh at yourself.

I rarely got retouched when I started modeling, and it was crucial to me to show an accurate, realistic picture of me because that's beautiful, too.

'Roseanne' was massive for me. I adored that show. I mean, the show was this couple who weren't cookie-cutter, and they were sexy, and we know that they like to have sex with each other, and they flirted, and then they ragged on their kids, and their kids ragged on them, and it was such a realistic depiction.