Quotes About Realism

It is very important to just be real and have a good check on reality in life.

Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

I'm not going to try and sit here and be Superman.

I feel that Sarkar is a realistic superman in his life.

I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.

I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.

The concept of 'Heavy Rain' is to offer real-life situations with real characters. There are no supernatural elements in the story.

Playing someone supernatural is more realistic than I thought it would be.

I always went school with a backup plan. Everything I did was a backup plan because I never was the most talented guy. I wasn't, you know, the superstar at all.

Most of my stories, if not all of them, have some basis in real life. That's the kind of fiction I'm most interested in. I suppose that's one reason I don't have much respect for fiction that seems to be game playing.

I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.

A supreme pragmatist, Kissinger was never interested in the art of the impossible - and nor, as a biographer, am I. That is why, having initially been invited to write his entire official biography, I eventually decided to devote myself to writing just one year in his life: 1973.

Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real.

I hate stories in which a person has an occupation and you never see him working at it, like all those marvelous Cary Grant movies where he's a surgeon, and you never see him in the operating room.

If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.

A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.

On 'EastEnders,' if someone gets surprising news on the phone, the scene ends with them looking at their handset in amazement. No one in real life does that.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times.

Anyone who does not see that there is a 'struggle for power' element is naïve; anyone who sees nothing but this aspect is a false realist.

The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective. (Letter, April 19, 1951)

Don't be a hero, young man. There's no percentage in it.

Critical thinking without hope is cynicism, but hope without critical thinking is naïvete," the Bulgarian writer Maria Popova recently remarked.