Quotes About Realism

Molly Shannon and I used to always talk about that we really felt strongly that we were comedic actors, that we weren't comedians. You just played things real and the comedy came out of the context.

What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.

I feel strongly that I need to try to make my shows as real as possible. What you see is what you get.

I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.

I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to a lot of realism both in the language and in the structure of a book.

'Enchanted' illustrates how impractical fairy-tale ideals are in the World As We Know It, and yet, Giselle's unabashed optimism always seems to magically find its time and place.

I am an optimist, not a dreamer.

I'm a born, cautious optimist.

I've never been an optimist.

I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.

I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like Mary Poppins.

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

I am very optimistic, and I always think positive, but within reason and never getting too far ahead of the game.

War is not beautiful. Sometimes you see action sequences where battles seem organized. I know that from how the Vikings fought. It's not beautiful. It's hard. It's hard work.

What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I am in the autopsy room, I go to the crime scene and I do work in the lab gives my books this flavor that otherwise they wouldn't have.

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.

I like it when characters respond to things that are outrageous and movie-like in an authentic way.

I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.

Great groups are more optimistic than realistic. They believe they can do what no one else has done before. "And the optimists, even when their good cheer is unwarranted, accomplish more," says Warren.

Rauw realisme met een gepast einde.

The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism ' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist.

One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

Don't you see?" he said. "This could go on for another five years, another ten years, and then where would we be? You want to grow old waiting for something that's never going to happen? Is that what you want?