Quotes About Realism

I'm a realist. Where I come from, 'phenomenons' don't exist. I'm from a land where people make mistakes and try again, harder, faster; where negativity is not an option.

Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.

Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

We should not seek to tune out the realists' whines or taunts, as they may provide good instruction.

The fact that 'Mom' is not joke, joke, joke - and is investing in these characters and their lives, things that really happen to people - I think it's resonating, and that's why people are tuning into it and not just dismissing it as a multi-cam sitcom.

Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it.

I try to look at things in a positive light, but not everything ends up turning out positive or perfect.

Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.

Turns out it's bloody hard to make a sculpture that looks like a human head, so I've not bothered. Realism is for squares.

I have seen games on Xbox 360 and HD TV and I'm amazed at how realistic the players look.

If I can do a scene in one shot, it's in one shot. Most of my shots are pretty long. I think with 'Looking,' what we have in the first minute is a whole episode of a traditional TV show. I like to let things breathe; I like to let things have a certain tone.

I wasn't one of those people who had some grand plan to become Prime Minister. I'm a normal person. When I was being foolish in my twenties, when I was at university, I wasn't thinking I was going to become an MP.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.

We all have dark sides to ourselves, and I want to portray that in a realistic way.

The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

I think video is very useful, but it's very useful when you want a certain reality.

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

Sometimes I think I want to get 'hair and make up' every day, but that's just not possible.

I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all. I'm interested in the ways that I think people want to relate.

I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist.

That'Â's a way to increase the realism to the reader, if you want to get technical - you leave it [character] vague and you let the reader fill in the blanks with their imagination.

People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.

To be honest I'm not going to sell dreams like everybody else does and say, "Sure, it can be changed." I don't want to seem like a pessimist, but nothing's getting better.