Conclusion Quote by Charlie Kaufman

I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

— Peter Greenaway

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

— Manuel Puig

I think you just have to be realistic to what the reality is, the way people experience movies.

— Adam Wingard

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

— Federico Fellini

Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.

— Hob Broun

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

— Jacques Audiard

I think you can be much truer to real emotions and reality by creating something that on the surface seems artificial but, by then…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental…

— Eugene Ionesco

Realism is a corruption of reality.

— Wallace Stevens

Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.

— Nelson Shanks

Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.

— Zane Grey

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite

— Crispin Glover