Quotes About Realism

I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I'm not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.

When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live.

I do not know how much my own work has achieved, and I must not pretend it has done more than it has.

I like hard work and I don't like pretending things are perfect.

The work for the actor is always the same. We're looking for a human being. We're looking for believable human behavior.

I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work.

If you look at how I've tried to and how I'll continue to try to govern, I'm not driven by some ideological agenda. I'm a pretty practical guy and I just want to make sure that things work.

I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.

Most people probably become more jaded the longer they work in the world of work.

You can't give someone five hundred punches in a film anymore. You beat on them, and they continue to stand there staring at you. That doesn't work. People just don't buy that anymore.

By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed.

Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.

Kids in England will stop you on the streets and tell you bluntly they don't care for your current record. But it keeps you down to earth.

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.

It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old.

I can't even look at daily comic strips. And I hate sitcoms because they don't seem like real people to me: they're props that often say horrible things to each other, which I don't find funny. I have to feel like they're real people.

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.

A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'

For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.

All women are strong, and we don't need to write stronger female roles; what we need to start writing is real women that have emotions and have real-life thoughts.