Analysis Quote by Manuel Puig

I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff…

— 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

Realism is a corruption of reality.

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Hob Broun

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

— Anonymous

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

— George Lakoff

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense…

— John Fiske

True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest.

— Asger Jorn

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

— Federico Fellini

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

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

— Crispin Glover