I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.
I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant.
People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.
The idea of universal brotherhood is innate in the catholic nature of Chinese thought; it was the dominant concept of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, whom events have proved time and again to be not a visionary but one of the world's greatest realists.
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.
I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.
I'm a realist. Where I come from, 'phenomenons' don't exist. I'm from a land where people make mistakes and try again, harder, faster; where negativity is not an option.
I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.
I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.
My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.
I’m a realist,” I said. “Lying and making promises about forever is almost as bad as one day at a time.
You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist.
Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.
But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.
It wasn't so much that Lola Plum believed she'd learned her lesson in love. Lola Plum was just realistic about life.
What people say realistic, may not necessarily the same as what we think. At the end we will know which one Is ourselves, which one is not.
Our common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much a source of despair as hope.
I love a good cliffhanger. I love when big events happen in shows. I love shows that aren't afraid to take risks and to really do what's best for the story line and realistic for the story line.
If you cannot see it in your mind, then it becomes difficult to get. If you can personally visualize it, it becomes easier and more realistic to achieve.
I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
