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.
A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a retro-cool family movie, to having the photo-realism with the CG-backgrounds and infinite focus the way they worked with these digital cameras, to even the color experimentation.
I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It never occurred to me that I was writing absurdity. Realism and absurdity are so similar in the lives of American blacks one cannot tell the difference.
I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.
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 have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
. . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states consider legislation that would make the licking of toads illegal; Lisa Presley marries Michael Jackson. You read these things and you think to yourself that realism may not be the best medium through which to express the real world.
What she needs, at least one thing she needs, is companionship. After all why should she eat? Who needs her to be alive? What we call psychosis is sometimes simply realism. But human beings can't live on realism alone.
In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
Critical to any practice of sacred psychology is training in multiple imageries to facilitate the inner realism of journeys of the soul.
Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality.
Some people argue against both optimism and pessimism in favor of so-called realistic thinking. They distrust optimism on the grounds that it causes us to sugercoat problems, discount risks, and exaggerate the upside. Pessimism, on the other hand, is criticized as too downbeat, de-energizing, and generally damaging in its impact. This crown prefers realism as the neutral and objective middle ground.
A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.
I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist.
We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them.
The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.
Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
There's nothing that will bring realism into your world as quickly as realizing that you're out of cash.
The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism, Dynamic Double-Dog Realism, Ishkabibbleism, and Mama, which is like Dada only nicer.
Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.
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