Realism Quotes · Page 5

That's realism: a fact that if the audiences don't move out and watch good films at the theatre, people will stop making…

— Manoj Bajpayee

Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.

— Ted Malloch

It's the little added bonus of realism that makes the difference between an adequately done stunt and a really convincing one.

— Hal Needham

The physical world is meaningless tonight And there is no other.

— Wallace Stevens

“Grisha, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole.”

— Anton Pavlovich Chejov

I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.

— Edgar Wright

I really want to do something that is very, very deep within realism, like a 'Winter's Bone,' or a 'Blue Valentine.'

— Diana Silvers

When you live in lies, you can't tell what is the truth anymore.

— Francine Chiar

I gravitate much more toward realism, realism in the work that I do, but magical realism got me hooked on film. I…

— Rachel Morrison

I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract…

— Derek R. Audette

I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism.…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

For me, my realism has stood me over 15 years, so the kind of films that I have done has garnered enough…

— R. Madhavan

Games already pretty much have reached the point of photo-realism. Working on more intense graphics is not the only path we can…

— Satoru Iwata

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new,…

— Terri Windling

Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has…

— Terry Eagleton

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

Depression, when it's clinical, is not a metaphor. It runs in families, and it's known to respond to medication and to counseling.…

— Jonathan Franzen

I was pretty realistic to people about what we could get done, and the situation we were in, and trying to tamp…

— Barack Obama

Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty… Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting…

— Aldous Huxley

Sci-fi and horror, particularly, allow a storyteller to depart from, let's say, the demands of cinema verite or kitchen-sink realism or, even,…

— Karyn Kusama

I ran on the platform of moderation and won the election by a large margin. By virtue of the strong mandate that…

— Hassan Rouhani

“The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic…

— Raymond Chandler

Realism in foreign policy is made up of a clear set of values, since difficult foreign policy decisions are often decided with…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Actors look at life in a different way. When I meet people, I know that one day I may portray that person…

— Mekhi Phifer

It Seems Like The More You Find Out About Someone The Less You Know Them

— Kiana JWilson

Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'

— Nick Nolte

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

— George C. Wolfe

One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters…

— Tamora Pierce

“Reality hasn't really sunk in yet, I knew that. I didn't want to know what life was going to feel like when…

— Keary Taylor

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.

— Nateman

The good thing about writing a true story is that you don't have to worry about giving an impression of realism.

— Laurent Binet

I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components.

— Robert Reynolds

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.

— Alton Tobey

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

— Douglas Alexander

A real man would buy things for his baby,not for a prostitute on his dick.

— Anonymous

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

— Mason Cooley

I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.

— Edmund White

Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.

— Skrillex

I'm in the game of realism so happy endings probably feel a little bit too neat for life.

— Jesse Armstrong

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

— Neil Gaiman