The core of the film [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] is that relationship. Whether they're getting on or whether they're not. If that… — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
I dream about speaking in big forums about issues that need to be spoken about. I dream about helping others who I… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself. The fascination of photorealistic paintings lies partly in their apparent… — Audrey Flack Copy Share Image
I think you can be much truer to real emotions and reality by creating something that on the surface seems artificial but,… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, like realism, or other kinds of… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
The real, then, is that which, sooner or later, information and reasoning would finally result in, and which is therefore independent of… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
“You'd like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn't you, Comrade Sergeant?' said Reg encouragingly. 'I'd like a hard-boiled egg,' said Vimes, shaking the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
“he saw and recognised the visible and he sought his place in this world. He did not seek reality; his goal was… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy… — Crispin Glover Copy Share Image
Though we had to part, though we could never be together again. We had no regrets. Even if he returned to his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Call Of Duty' initially cut its teeth on World War II simulation stuff, and then we gradually advanced to the end of… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
... what is faked [by the computerization of image-making], of course, is not reality, but photographic reality, reality as seen by the… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
“I don't know about you, but I'm kind of fed up with realism. After all, there's enough reality already; why make more… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
For me, making a lot of dramas on one side it's a different sort of challenge, and on the other, it's not… — James Mangold Copy Share Image
“Lady Caroline: As far as I can make out, the young women of the present day seem to make it the sole… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
“A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“But as Austen delineates so clearly, you can't stop people from making assumptions if they're so inclined. You can only do your… — Amy Elizabeth Smith Copy Share Image
Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image