Quotes About Realism

Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.

The best movies are rooted in reality.

All my stories are mainly slice-of-life and rooted to real issues and situations that I have experienced myself.

I'm not writing about the 1 percent of people who have this fairy-tale, amazing life. I'm writing about people like me, who maybe had a rough childhood.

I'm no saint. I'm no angel. I never proclaimed to be.

I'm not a savior.

If my characters travel somewhere, I generally write about a place I know to give the scenes more authenticity.

The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real.

You now have these owners who are all successful businessmen, and they think they should be winning. They come in thinking that they should be winning. Some don't understand that only one team can win the league.

In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

I've always been drawn to artists who paint for the everyday person. I love the American illustrators.

I want paint to work as flesh.

Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too creepy. Well, robots can seem real and be loved, too. We're trying to make a new art medium out of robotics.

I don't live in Hollywood. I don't have celebrities as friends. I like them, but I don't pal around with them. I just live in the Midwest, a real normal world.

I try to, pardon the expression, stay with my feet on the ground.

No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he's ready for the N.F.L. out of high school.

It's now arguably over-written about and over-discussed how hard it is to be an entrepreneur. Of course it's hard. So is being a parent. Let's stop over-congratulating ourselves and let's just do our work.

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.

No authority is higher than reality.

Realist saboteurs do not, as a rule, enjoy long careers. Everyone gets caught eventually.

Oh, it might not be perfect. It might be a bit redundant, or resort to the occasional expository infodump. But even real people do that, don't they?

we're hard-core realists—we just pay lip service to death and decay and keep right on feeling immortal anyway.

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.