Quotes About Realism

I always try to write about believable people.

I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.

The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

In 'Letters from Iwo Jima,' there were times when I told Eastwood, 'This is just not believable.'

Life's not always going to be bells and whistles.

Vegetarians are at best kindly but unrealistic. At worst they are delusional sentimentalists.

Je ne crois pas aux méthodes du réalisme, genre artificiel s'il en est; je préfère révéler d'un seul coup ce que j'ai compris graduellement. »

You have to show reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation.

As a matter of fact, no one is more tiresome than the person who can understand only realism in art. It shows a rather low artistic mentality never to believe anything you see unless it appears to be real. One must be willing to allow that symbolic things also mirror realities and sometimes provide greater esthetic pleasure than the merely realistic.

There is a saying, drawn from the ages of Old Earth and written by a council of Ancient Merican kings, that all men were created equal. I'd often wondered if the words sounded as false and idealistic to those men's ears as they did to mine. Truly, humanity has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

The mistake, Digby, of choosing to see more in your future mate than the evidence has already suggested.

It is unrealistic to assume that if all goes well in a child's life, he or she will be happy. Happiness is not something one can ask of a child. Children suffer in a way that adults don't always realize under the pressure their parents put on them to be happy.

And reality matters because it is the only thing that can satisfy us.

Humans are ridiculous. We're all pathetic strivers who will fall short. If you can accept that, it's optimistic because you can shoot for the moon and know you're never going to get there, and that's OK.

I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.

People say that soundstage sets never quite look like reality. But actually, they can. They can be as real as you want as long as you pay attention to the kind of detail that is given for free in a real place.

I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human.

I am a romantic person and maybe have this Hollywood perception of love... but then, it's never really like the movies.

You can't juggle it all 100 percent. You don't have to be perfect. You don't have to do everything.

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.

You don't want to play a perfect person; no one cares about that.

I don't really know a normal family. In fact, I don't know a perfect person. So, how can a family be perfect and frankly if there are any, they will be very boring like I won't want them over for dinner.