My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.
You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.
Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.
I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.
The problem with classical disembodied scientific realism is that it takes two intertwined and inseparable dimensions of all experience - the awareness of the experiencing organism and the stable entities and structures it encounters - and erects the...
Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.
. . . Absurdism was really just realism seen from close to the bottom.
It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.
For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.
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 is more realistic than that.
I've always wanted to do pieces that have an integral sense of realism and aren't just there for titillation.
It's not about adding diversity for the sake of diversity, it's about subtracting homogeneity for the sake of realism.
Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.
This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.
Capitalist ideology in general, Zizek maintains, consists precisely in the overvaluing of belief - in the sense of inner subjective attitude - at the expense of the beliefs we exhibit and externalize in our behavior. So long as we believe (in our hea...
In the language of the day it is customary to describe a certain sort of book as “escapist” literature. As I understand it, the adjective implies, a little condescendingly, that the life therein depicted cannot be identified with the real life wh...