Quotes About Realism

At the end of the day, whatever you're doing in the ring, you want it to look real, and genuine, and authentic.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

I don't have a glamorous lifestyle.

I don't go for glamour roles.

You don't sign up to 'Trainspotting' expecting glamour.

Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses.

We all come to the point where it's time to get yourself straight, as a businesswoman, a mother, whatever you are in life. It's tough love but it's also being real with yourself. It's important to take those rose-coloured glasses off and see what's going on.

I'm no longer in my 20s, and I think, by default, the rose-colored glasses are off.

I am not a 'doom and gloom' guy.

If the car is capable of finishing eighth, then I want to get the most out of the car and put it eighth. If the car is only capable of finishing 13th to start the year, then that has to be our goal.

I never try to set goals that I know are too tough to achieve or out of my reach.

I just want to tell a good story, so I always ask myself, 'Are these people real to me?'

I think the good thing about Dogme is that it forces you into an extreme sense of reality because there's no artificial light and no set design and all of those icings on the cake that you usually have on a movie.

I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.

I really want to do something that is very, very deep within realism, like a 'Winter's Bone,' or a 'Blue Valentine.'

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.

You have to understand - I come from a neighborhood where 'The Wire' was filmed.

'The Wire' is very realistic and based on real events.

Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.

'The Wire' is my all-time favourite show. It takes its time, and it doesn't spoon-feed the viewer.

I've been watching a lot of cable shows like 'The Wire' and 'Breaking Bad' and 'Downton Abbey.' I love how real the moments are.

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

More humility, in terms of recognizing our luck, and more realism, in understanding at a deep level that being smart doesn't make you good, doesn't make you valuable, doesn't make you wise.