Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'
The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.
You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.
Now is the time for Afro-realism: for sound policies based on honest data, aimed at delivering results.
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.
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.
Writer: Only the early Fitzgerald was great, then came an orgy of brutal realism.
I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
'Avatar' was incredible and totally groundbreaking, but it wasn't about utter realism. It had a great mythic fantasy to it, but the characters don't seem totally photo-real, as amazing as they are.
One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
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 Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.
Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism.
Realism arises from the maturity of the minds, while Idealism arises from their conformity.
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.
At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.
America is exceptional in combining standard great-power realism with extravagant idealism about the country's redemptive role in creating international order.
