Quotes About Realism

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.

When you are doing a film about real people, you don't have a lot of manoeuvrability when it comes to how much you can add by way of imagination. You have to replicate what they were like. What you can add to it is your version of it.

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

I think, for an artist, when you're drawing somebody who actually exists, it's a much steeper critical curve, as there is an actual representation of that person out there. You can't just interpret it any way you want.

I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.

'Scalped' is representative of the kinds of stories I like to read and I like to watch.

Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer.

Physical violence is always a bore in films today. We don't see how much it hurts. We don't learn the true consequences of it.

I hate hype.

One day Id like to try my hand at doing a gritty cop drama.

Nothing is ever ideal. You have to work all the same.

I am not in the habit of making ideal claims.

It's a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don't sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.

Ideally, you will never know that you're seeing a computer-generated car.

Whether it was 'Gangs Of Wasseypur' or whether it's 'LSTCK,' the characters are real, and when you see them on screen, you can identify with them.

I'm putting jobs over ideology.

My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.

Of course, it's wonderful to film any period piece - but especially 'Foyle's War' because the art direction is so imaginative and yet at the same time so real. You can open a drawer on set, and even though the camera never sees what's inside, it'll be filled with genuine 1940s documents.

For too long have many of us in India imagined a future in which the country would rise, leaving the rest of the subcontinent behind. This is neither possible nor warranted.

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

What I like about film is it explores imperfections.

It's great to want to go from point A to point B, sometimes you just can't make that and I just think Bernie will not be able to implement most of what he says he wants to do.

I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.

In my opinion, it's more interesting to see magic happening in a world that feels grounded. If the world is already crazy, then anything can happen. So it's better to start with something real.