Quotes About Realism

If you read scripts, you would see people rarely speak like that in real life, in complete sentences.

I find that there's so much funny stuff in real life, and I am much more interested in super grounded, real stuff, so now I just want things to feel real and authentic.

Like, if I'm assessing someone's game and they can't shoot, they can't shoot. And they know they can't shoot. It's not like I'm making fun of them. I just keep it real, man.

I love attempting to play real people. I like to try and have dramatic moments as well as comedic moments, and my favorite thing is when those two lines are blurred.

I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.

I always talk about my characters like they're real people.

And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why so many actresses were attracted to it. And it was just about problems that you could identify with so much, right off the bat.

I've played quite a lot of real people, and it carries a special responsibility.

I find that using real people as models keeps me from getting too formulaic in the designs of characters.

I think it's important to play real people.

What sometimes annoys me about the arts is increasingly that we have to put real people on screen or stage.

I don't have any special approach for playing dark characters. That's because I never looked at them as dark characters per se. For me, they were real people.

When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.

I like to play people that are real, a real person, and then something that's interesting with that person. I think it's a lot more challenging to do that than something that's extremely fantasy-like.

Every field piece I did on 'The Daily Show' was a story that lasted five to six minutes. We had a protagonist, we had an antagonist and often put them at odds. We knew the story we wanted to tell before we went in, and often it was about plugging whatever character you have - in this case, a real person - into said part.

Playing a real person, it does add an extra level of thoughtfulness. You're portraying someone who actually existed, so instead of saying, like, 'OK, I think this would make the scene better,' it's more a question of, 'What do I think the real Jeffrey Dahmer would do?'

And I think when you're playing someone who is a real person, it's extremely important to take the time and put in the effort to learn about who they are to be able to respectfully portray that.

With WesTrac, you have real people doing real jobs with real problems and real opportunities, and you touch the metal, and it's like being grounded.

Cartoons ran into trouble when they became too much like real life images. Cartoons had become poor imitations of the real thing.

I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

I want to play real people. Real women. I want to be where the fun is - closer to humanity.

We're not always going to be these bubbly, happy girls. We're real women, too.