Quotes About Realism

People want to see real women on screen.

I'm not good at dialogue. I'm not good at holding a mirror up at a real world. I'm not good at believable characterisation.

What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.

That's realism: a fact that if the audiences don't move out and watch good films at the theatre, people will stop making them.

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing.

I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

I do not think that any realism is beautiful.

Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see things on their doorstep every day. But growing up as a kid in a very pretty but ever-so-slightly boring town, where not a great deal happened, encouraged me to be more escapist, more imaginative, and more of a daydreamer.

The 'Mahabharata' is the best story ever. It makes you believe that impossible things can be made possible. There is magical realism.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

I'm always looking for authenticity in my films. They're based in realism.

Having been a cameraman, I think about, 'Well, if this was real, how would this be shot?' I try to inject as much realism as much as possible.

My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

'Martha Marcy May Marlene' is excellent. I adore how the film is both grounded in realism and, at the same time, it has an ethereal, nightmarish atmosphere.

I only understand realism.

Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.

At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.

Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.

I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and which represented the antithesis of the dreamy escapism you found in musicals.