I like it when characters are some combination of appealing and maybe flawed or self-interested. I think in terms of scenes, and… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from… — Luigi Russolo Copy Share Image
When I look back on my life I see pain, mistakes & heartache. When I look in the mirror I see strength,… — DeAngelo Stokes Copy Share Image
It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The Measure Of A Strong Person Is Not On How One Prepares For Everythng To Go Right, But On How A Person… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract… — George Parsons Lathrop Copy Share Image
Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies. — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
Over against any cognition, there is an unknown but knowable reality; but over against all possible cognition, there is only the self-contradictory.… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of… — Jim Henson Copy Share Image
I think what I find challenging is just trying to bring a truthfulness and a realism to a character. — Tricia Helfer Copy Share Image
Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation - that is what makes it revolutionary - but at the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Tough love and brutal truth from strangers are far more valuable than Band-Aids and half-truths from invested friends, who don’t want to… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
I don't think most of our films should be realistic, but you want that as an artistic possibility. Then, the artist can… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
... the thing that's happening today vis-á-vis computer imaging, vis-á-vis alteration, is that it no longer needs to be based on the… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
For me, my realism has stood me over 15 years, so the kind of films that I have done has garnered enough… — R. Madhavan Copy Share Image
“...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.” — Ruth Dugdall Copy Share Image
Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism. — Skrillex Copy Share Image
People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I ran on the platform of moderation and won the election by a large margin. By virtue of the strong mandate that… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image