Quotes About Realism

The world belongs to the unfeeling. The essential condition for being a practical man is the absence of any sensitivity

Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.

poetry is always dependent on realism, that you have to be a realist or you can't be a poet. Mrs.

The writer has no rights at all except those he forges for himself inside his own work. We have become so flooded with sorry fiction based on unearned liberties, or on the notion that fiction must represent the typical, that in the public mind the deeper kinds of realism are less and less understandable.

I like to make all kinds of shows and films, whether it's fantasy or big-popcorn, big-screen escapism or dramas based on real events.

I don't want to live in a fantasy world.

I have belly fat like everybody else, and I don't want to be airbrushed on the cover of a magazine.

I wrote 'Paava Kadhaigal' the same way I wrote my feature films 'Irudhi Sutru' or 'Soorarai Potru.' I was more honest in this film rather, because you can afford to be real and get away with it.

The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard.

I loved seeing a lead female character who isn't perfect and isn't demonized for it.

We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.

I much prefer films based on fact rather than fictional stories.

I just don't like filming scenes where it's like, that's not how people talk. People aren't saying a joke every five seconds.

The way films establish the order of scenes is very artificial.

We will never finish everything on our to-do lists. It's not possible, and that is life!

To be able to research directly from firefighters makes all the difference in the world in the authenticity of a performance.

And, again, I'm the first one to say that I'm not going be successful at everything.

Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.

Somewhere down the line, I felt the need to come to grips with the realistic - or live action - image which seemed to me central to the notion of film. And then a whole new world opened to me.

A close friend of mine described me as a radical pragmatist. I embrace this no-nonsense distinction wholeheartedly. It is a character trait that matches the sense of myself I've had from as far back as I can remember. I am not one who goes in much for magical thinking. I don't believe in destiny, fate, or things like divine guidance, either.

I think there's a joy to be had in taking readers where they just don't want to go. If you are writing a properly realist novel, then don't blink. Why not see something for what it is and render it truthfully? I find it a good way of going about writing - not to blink.

If you film a scene in a wide shot, especially a disturbing, distressing moment, I do feel like that helps you feel as though you're the room with these people, instead of cutting it up and getting close - which you wouldn't be doing if you were actually in a room with these people.

In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.

A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.