#realism

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. ↗

— Crispin Glover

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In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown. ↗

— Mary Grandpre

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I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism. ↗

— William Hague

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But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques. ↗

— Jim Henson

#alive #creatures #crystal #dark #go

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. ↗

— Tori Amos

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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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But surrealism is present in most of my pictures. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

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The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

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I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

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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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