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As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.
Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.
I like movies where everything is dealt naturally and with a sense of realism.
The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.
Reality has a long history of not altering itself to make us happy or comfortable.
I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.
Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.
There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.
The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.
I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.
I love David Bohm. I started to get into speculative realism because I started reading his work.
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.
I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.
We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility.
Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.
In 'Min Kamp,' I wanted to see how far it was possible to take realism before it would be impossible to read.
I've always wanted to do pieces that have an integral sense of realism and aren't just there for titillation.
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion.
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.
Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'
For years, in the wake of Rushdie, I had imagined magical realism to be the last refuge of the non-resident Indian.
I really want to do something that is very, very deep within realism, like a 'Winter's Bone,' or a 'Blue Valentine.'
Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.
In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.
For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.
Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals.
Turns out it's bloody hard to make a sculpture that looks like a human head, so I've not bothered. Realism is for squares.
My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.
I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.
Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing.
It's the little added bonus of realism that makes the difference between an adequately done stunt and a really convincing one.
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.
Those of us who thought Jorge Luis Borges was a pioneer of magical realism were mistaken; he was a pioneer of science fiction.
I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.
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.