Quotes About Realism

I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.

I tend to play more true-to-life characters in real situations.

If I can't find real situations that interest me in real life, then I'll go and write them in play form.

I try and imagine myself in situations and figure out how I'd have reacted and responded to them, and then bring that insight into my acting. Much of acting is about borrowing from your real-life experiences.

I'm not really crazy about broad comedy. I like very possible, real situations that you might have found yourself in.

No one wants to follow a pessimist... You can be skeptical, you can be realistic, but you can't be cynical. If your boss is Eeyore, do you want to work with someone like that? Oh, bother.

I'm a pretty skeptical person, and I'm a realistic person.

There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.

Rubber looks different to skin and it's very, very hard to make a prosthetic on a human look convincing if you don't light them correctly.

What's great about 'Skins' is that the characters are exactly like people around you.

My high school experience was very different than the high school experience on 'Skins.'

In love' is for the romantic. 'Love' for the realist.

I love movies, but I think people think relationships are supposed to go how they go in movies. The ones I like are the ones that represent life.

It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are less than admirable.

He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.

Ladies, please remember that every single picture you see in a magazine is airbrushed...we do not look like that. Love yourself!

Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

An idealistic lover is a blind lover, and therefore a true lover; a pragmatic lover is a sighted lover, and therefore a false lover.

I have a great love of the actual.

You've got to stop thinking everyone's problems can be solved by falling in love.

Nobody had to tell Ramona life was full of disappointments. She already knew.

In fact, overwhelmingly museum displays are artificial.

Psychologically, we're all a complex mixture of hopes and fears. Each day we wake up with the scales tipping a bit one way or the other. If they go too far toward hopefulness, we can become naïve and unrealistic. If the scales tilt too far the other way, we can get consumed by paranoia and hatred.