Realism Quotes

I do things on TV that are kitchen-sink realism, which is great, but I like the challenge of a completely new language and dramatic environment. David Denman
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'Call Of Duty' initially cut its teeth on World War II simulation stuff, and then we gradually advanced to the end of the Cold War, but you can't keep doing the same thing over and over again. And I think that because 'Call Of Duty' cut its teeth on presenting 'realism,' in quotes... verisimilitude. David S. Goyer
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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. Debbie Reynolds
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Social realism takes research. Debra Granik
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I really want to do something that is very, very deep within realism, like a 'Winter's Bone,' or a 'Blue Valentine.' Diana Silvers
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For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public. Douglas Alexander
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I don't think most of our films should be realistic, but you want that as an artistic possibility. Then, the artist can take the realism of the world and push it in ways that we can connect with. Edwin Catmull
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Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources. Elif Batuman
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I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues. Faran Tahir
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In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic. Garth Nix
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Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals. George C. Wolfe
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The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses. George Oppen
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The Negro problem, like all other political problems, is fundamentally a moral issue. This is realism, not idealism. Those of my colleagues who believe that they are particularly 'hard boiled' because they overlook the fact that human beings are struggling for their consciences are simply unrealistic. Gunnar Myrdal
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I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests. Gustave Flaubert
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A few people have tried to make me see that my writing isn't quite their thing by saying to me: 'What about realism?' To which my general response is, 'What about it?' However, I wouldn't be at all surprised if one of my favorite writers, Marilynne Robinson, was to say something similar if asked 'What about the fantastic?' Helen Oyeyemi
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From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy. Irvine Welsh
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. Jackson Pollock
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While 'The Wire' feels startlingly lifelike, it is not, in fact, a naturalistic depiction of ghetto life. That kind of realism better describes an earlier miniseries of Simon's, 'The Corner,' which was based on the book of the same title that he and Ed Burns wrote, set in the same Baltimore ghetto. Jacob Weisberg
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The cinema that interests me departs from realism. Jacques Audiard
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The beauties of the game may be lost on some of us sometimes, but many children will read about football when they will read nothing else, not for realism or glamour but for romance. Jan Mark
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. Jean Cocteau
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I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to a lot of realism both in the language and in the structure of a book. Jeffrey Eugenides
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A TV touchstone for me is 'The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.' That series was whimsical and smart and had the mix of comedy and drama that I now trade in - but with a dash of magical realism. I wanted to be Molly Dodd, but more than that, I wanted to be Jay Tarses, who created the show. Jenji Kohan
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I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in terms of voice - their humor, their fatalism, their... well, that over-used term 'magical realism.' It's a wonderful term that's just been used so much, we don't know what it means anymore. Jessica Hagedorn
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Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the two most powerful neoconservative journalists, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer: he called them 'the Bomber Boys.' Joe Klein
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Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed. John Fiske
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