Quotes About Realism

'Special 26' was a raw, real film.

We try to cast very real kids who have raw talent.

I feel amused when women in Indian films are unfailingly shown screaming at their kith and kin who are involved in nefarious activities. Please, let's get real! How can a woman react so dramatically to something that has been happening under her nose ever since her marriage?

If the actors aren't reacting the way people would react, that's where you step into disbelief.

The very best way I can make any reader believe in the nuts and bolts of an art form... is to know the mechanics, to make the characters grounded in convincing detail.

I believe that if the story is fleshed out and the characters more believable, the reader is more likely to take the journey with them. In addition, the plot can be more complex. My characters are very real to me, and I want each of my characters to be different.

I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Make acting seem real and as if it weren't acting. Just make it real.

I don't think I was bubbly in 'Oohalu Gusagusalade.' It was a real character.

I don't have a desire to make films that have cardboard cut-out or Hollywood stand-in replicas of humans. I need the real deal.

In my films, a lot of the situations come from real life.

We love those under-eye circles. It's real life.

All of my novels are seeded in real life events, and 'The Wreckage' is no different.

Taking nuances from real life will help you make scenes that have never been done before. It keeps the story interesting.

My indie work is mostly reality-based, focused on real life and characters.

I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.

Models, even male models - how small they've gotten! It looks great for the clothes, but it's not what you want in real life.

I don't want to write lines where characters tell me exactly how they feel; I want to see people talk about anything but their feelings, like they do in real life.

In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.

I'm very comfortable with an R-rating. I feel like it sounds like what people talk like in real life; I think it's more real to me.

I've just always been interested in alter-naturalism and seeing if you can make real life interesting enough to be dramatic without enhancing it. Like, could you make a movie or write a play in which there's no compression of time, there's no enhanced event, it's just real life?

When I saw 'Louie' and 'Girls', I was blown out of the water. They were fearless portrayals of real life. Everyone has a different experience.