Quotes About Realism

I don't quite operate within the realist mode. I kind of push the stories out towards the cusp of believability - that's the area of interest for me.

I lean towards traditionally what people would consider the more negative side of life.

Not every town can or should be saved.

You have to decide what kind of story you're going to tell. For instance I would argue a movie like 'Toy Story 3,' which isn't realistic at all, is really emotional and involving. It just depends. I played this game called 'Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP' for iPad that is totally old school 8-bit, which I found very moving.

Don't get older; get better: Live realistically. Give generously. Adapt willingly. Trust fearlessly. Rejoice daily.

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.

A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.

No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!

Many people lack the basic equipment to be in a relationship and there's nothing you can do to change it.

Many people lack the basic equipment to be in a relationship and there's nothing you can do to change it. You can't take a skunk and dip it in perfume and hope it becomes a puppy. Eventually, the perfume will wear off and you'll still have a skunk on your hands.

That's the trouble with putting women on a pedestal. You do that, and they always fall off - knocking you over on the way down.

Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art -- although it may possibly be very good journalism?

Ben-Gurion once said that in Israel, "in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles." After such extraordinary achievement in science and technology and human creativity, how could we be anything but believers in miracles, faithful to the imaginations that are capable of conceiving them, and committed to the efforts to bring them to life? Ben-Gurion was right: realism in Israel is nothing less than the impossible made real.

Life has proved bitter and deceptive to Philip because of the artist in him, because he has kept seeking a beauty and significance that isn't life's to give; but Steve is a shrewd little realist, who, given opportunity to meet life on its own terms, ought to make a fair success of it.

The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world.

Some relationships aren't meant to be Great Love; they're meant to be like a hot fudge sundae--enjoyable but not something you can acually live on.

As much as I do love real-life stories they can often make you hurt in a way I'd rather not hurt. . . . For some reason, it's always the pain that gets you.

I love shooting with real things in the real world. I think it gives a level of drama, performance, and everything seems to rise to the occasion.

I love art because I feel that it's evidence of the great shared universal power. I like art that feels real, that cuts the bullshit.

Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.

I love being able to stay real to the world.

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun