Audience Quote by Mary McCarthy

If I'm watching a heavy drama and there's no moment of people laughing, I always think that's not realistic.

— Brett Goldstein

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of…

— Tom Stoppard

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

A disturbing possibility exists that the television experience has not merely blurred the distinctions between the real and the unreal for steady viewers, but…

— Marie Winn

We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.

— Jerry Bruckheimer

When an actor constructs reality, it has to be riveting and entertaining. There has to be an emotional connect with the audience.

— Rajiv Menon

I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult to watch…

— Paul Bloom

“Have you seen people in a theater looking at a movie, how different they are there? They cry; as something happens on the screen,…

— Osho

I think once you do the unexpected, and you take the viewers to a position of discomfort about being able to rely on characters…

— Jed Mercurio

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

— Manoj Bajpayee

I think that the audience should not be able to tell if it is real or not real - it should be an enhanced…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

You will never experience less reality than when you are watching a reality show. You're watching people who aren't actors, put into situations created…

— Dana Gould