Quotes About Realism

They were young and still starry-eyed, too naive to know that true love and happily ever after were the stuff of fairy tales—and that sometimes the line between frog and prince got pretty blurry

It's unrealistic to expect to be completely accepted and understood in life.

I'm not big into images. I'm into reality.

Bosses are the ones calling the shots, as they should in any organization. And if you think you're above your boss, that's not reality.

Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.

I gravitate much more toward realism, realism in the work that I do, but magical realism got me hooked on film. I think it was my first time realizing that there was something besides popcorn movies.

Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in.

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and realism. The effort to reconcile the two is at the core of all my poetry.

There's a time and a place for a bit of realism, and it's bands like Arctic Monkeys that do it amazingly well. But why do bands have to recycle something that's already been done very well? We wanted to make interesting pop music, and to drop in literary references.

When you're playing someone that's real, there is that hanging weight of how will they feel when they see this: will I make them feel exposed in some way, and how do I absolutely avoid doing that while playing this as accurately and empathetically as I possibly can?

You have to live in reality: not in what might happen but what is happening.

When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?'

It's just not interesting to play happy people.

I'm not clever. But I am level-headed, hard-working, dogged.

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

The best part about doing 'Wuthering Heights' was you were completely in that world. It could not have been done with CGI. You had to be there.

That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.

Most people aren't these grandstanding heroes.

I don't believe there are heroes or saviours in politics.

I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.

I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.