Quotes About Realism

In some ways any film that you do has an artificiality about it. Even when you're doing the most kitchen-sinky, gritty, realistic scene you've still got 50 people standing around watching you with cameras and lights and things.

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

My biggest satisfaction is always when I make something beautiful and well-done that I can see on a real man or woman - not only in the glossy magazines.

You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore.

I don't want realism…. I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic!… I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.

I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!

Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism....

Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness.

Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.

I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the story--readers see an unknotting of sorts. Not what you expect, not the easy answers you get on TV, not wash and wear philosophies, but a reproduction of believable, emotional experiences.

Do you inquire why, holding these views and possessing some will of my own, i accept so imperfect a proposition? I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.

Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.

I don't have any delusions. I don't think I would make it through Navy SEAL training.

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

What I read and what I go to the movies for is not to find a best friend, not to find inspirations, not necessarily for a hero's journey. It's to be involved with characters that are maybe incredibly different from me, that may be incredibly bad but that feel authentic.

Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is usually where the work comes in - figuring out how to make it believable and make it real to present someone's problems that you don't necessarily actually know anything about.

I actually can't watch blood and gore and all those things. I watch Netflix shows with my hand over my face, like, peeking out. Which is funny, because I'm on sets all the time, and I know how those effects are done.

I've avoided doing network shows because I don't think they're true to real families.

I may not expect every single show to sell out and I never take everything for granted, but you still know you're going to get a certain amount of people.

When you go back to 'Friends,' and you look at that as New York, there's no black people. That's not real. You're in New York City, and there's no black people at all. That's a little funny.

I cannot express how unglamorous it is. There are moments, where you're at an event, and you'll be like, oh, this is quite shiny, but day to day - no. I live with flatmates that I've lived with for five years who have nine-to-five jobs. We all go to work, come home, cook dinner and there's no shenanigans.

The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.