Quotes About Realism

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed.

Landscape is one of the few things he knows of where the reality doesn't let you down.

Los hombres desean que sus héroes sean perfectos, cosa tan laudable como poco realista.

I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.

You try to make your sparring sessions as realistic as possible.

I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.

Movie dialogue is movie dialogue. It can sound real, but no one speaks that way.

With some writers, the script looks beautiful on the page, but nobody actually speaks like that.

I think it speaks to people in 2015, right now. We address real situations. It's real life! Everything that happens in 'Dope' could happen today.

Special effects are becoming more and more affordable and looking more and more like the real thing.

I'd like to act in a film without special effects.

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.

I always loved acting. I always loved realism. I loved the theatre, specifically small audience, real-sets stuff.

I think, specifically with the horror genre, you have to make it very believable because it can come across ridiculous.

That's what I love about death on 'Game of Thrones.' Nobody has dying speeches. Nobody has anything like that. Once you're gone, you're gone.

I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.

I've consciously tried not to romanticize anything, especially not intelligence work. I've always said that I've been writing a series of episodic, naturalistic novels. The people just happen to be spies, politicians, civil servants.

For people to understand, you can't speak 'cinema.' Cinema doesn't have alphabets, so you have to go to the local language. Even in England, if they make a movie in London they have to make it in the Cockney accent, they can't make a film with the English spoken in the BBC. So cinema has to be realistic to the area that it is set in.

Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another.

Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.

Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately casts us into a countercultural pursuit.

I'm a real dude from a real place and I never express myself through social sites. I don't feed into it, man. That's not real life.