#real

I only understand realism. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#only #realism #understand

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#i #i write #novels #reality #something

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#american cinema #certain #cinema #intention #me

I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation. ↗

— Bill Pullman

#brother #his #i #operation #ranch

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. ↗

— Tom Waits

#blind man #bulb #cane #imagination #like

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#attention #claim #lies #only #real

I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered. ↗

— James Purefoy

#actor #bothered #corner #friends #get

I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly. ↗

— James Purefoy

#burn #exciting #i #like #people

I'm on record saying that HBO is the best television company in the world, and I believe they are. I think they absolutely understand how to make television that is really, really vital and interesting and visceral, and all the things that television really should be. ↗

— James Purefoy

#believe #best #company #hbo #how

Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really. ↗

— James Purefoy

#beings #casual #cool #each #ever