Quotes About Realism

I have remarked elsewhere that I regard the Almighty as not a bad novelist, except that He is a realist.

Resmin ilk konusu hayvanlard?. Ve en baÅŸtan baÅŸlay?p Sümer, Asur, M?s?r ve ilk dönem Yunan resminde devam eden bir çizgide, bu hayvanlar?n tasvirleri olaÄŸanüstü derecede hakikidir. Ä°nsan gövdesinin tasvirinde eÅŸdeÄŸer bir 'gerçek-gibi'liÄŸe ula??lmas? için biny?llar?n geçmesi gerekmiÅŸtir. BaÅŸlang?çta insan?n yüzleÅŸtiÄŸi, varoland?." sayfa 30

The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan." Stick to the good plan.

How happy I might be, if only she was less greedy, better tempered, not addicted to raking up old grudges, more affectionate, with slightly yellower hair, slimmer, and about twenty years younger! But what is the good of expecting such a woman to reform?

Our opinion on palaeoart is that subtle references and hints of anatomical features are more realistic, more in line with what we see in living animals. Portrayed with style and in an appropriate setting, they can leave a more distinct effect on the viewer.

We are a rugged species, up for anything the universe can throw at us; and as the great gloominaries knew, we will be immeasurably better prepared for nasty surprises if we approach the universe realistically — pessimistically — than if we continue to peer out at our surroundings through a distorting, rose-colored prism of wish-fulfillment fantasy.

The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.

People have a natural tendency to read emotions out of faces, so when you see a face that is hyperreal but without the life behind the eyes, it's really off-putting and intriguing.

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is.

It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

I think I have learned to really get out of the mathematical side of myself that looks at story and story structure and go with, "Okay, well, what would people do in real life?"

My goal in life is to bring to the screen really believable depictions that make you think, "Damn, I have to look within myself."

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

I didn't take the decision [to get married] lightly. I ventured into it realistically. But life takes you places you wouldn't have expected. I'm really content with what was in the cards for me.

You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get.

These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it's true to life.

It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.

I like films that go a little more daring visually, and story-based stuff that usually reflects pretty closely to what real life is.

I've always approached screenplays and so forth with, "How would it really happen?" Not "What's the movie version?" but "What's the real-life version?" Then I just follow my nose.

There is usually less romance in marriage than in any other relationship of life. But the general idea concerning marriage is that it is all or nearly all romance.

On the other side, if Im playing a good guy, then he has some problems too. Thats what makes people interesting, in life and in fiction.

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.