Quotes About Realism

'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.

I hate it when you are watching a movie where the characters are on the news, and for some reason they shoot it with a 35mm camera or a 4K camera, and they just put it on the TV as if that's the way it would look - it always takes me out of it by putting a filter on certain things. If it's too high quality, you're never gonna buy it.

Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book.

I beg you I no magician. I can't just wave a magic wand.

I'm quite a dreamy person but I'm also very realistic about my possibilities, so if this was meant to remain a hobby I would have kept it as that. But I feel like music goes in waves and when you get an upward swing, you have to push it as far as you can.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

If we made the 'Batman' games more realistic, you'd have to be Bruce Wayne for half the game, counting his money and dating supermodels.

Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.

The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better.

I've definitely had ideas and plans that sometimes exceed my means and capabilities.

I have trouble keeping plants alive. Even plastic ones.

Some people are shocked when a game evokes real-world issues. But this platform is about becoming the characters, not just seeing them from the outside, like in a film.

People ask me about 'The Hurt Locker' a lot, and it's an incredible piece of filmmaking - as are 'Band of Brothers' and 'Platoon' and 'Full Metal Jacket' and 'Apocalypse Now.' But they're not necessarily true to war in a literal sense. What they are, really, are brilliant movies about Hollywood's idea of war.

In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.

There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives.

No President can achieve everything or please everyone.

Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do.

I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

I take people the way they are. You could work all your life to change them, and they never will. What's the point? They need to be who they are.