Top 1200 Magical Realism Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

I've always wanted to do pieces that have an integral sense of realism and aren't just there for titillation.

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

Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.

Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third.

I had My Little Ponies. I was obsessed with the idea of a creature that was born with something magical that sort of made them the misfit in the world of the stallion. I’m actually quite obsessed with unicorns. They are in essence a mythical creature. The unicorn is born magical and it’s not the unicorn’s fault and it doesn’t make it any more or less special or any less unique but it can’t help that it was born with that magic.

I think what I find challenging is just trying to bring a truthfulness and a realism to a character.

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

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.

Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.

Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.

Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.

There's nothing that will bring realism into your world as quickly as realizing that you're out of cash.

I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.

This business about graceful exit just simply has no realism to it at all.

Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.

It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike powerless before the advance of the Assyrians, that magical superstitions based on mere terror, or rites designed to conciliate alien gods, invade the sphere of tribal or national religion. In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.

One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.

From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.

I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

Realism: the wealth of detail guarantees the truth of the tale.

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.

Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances.

Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'

I love realism. I don't like plastics. Deep down inside we're all the same.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

People are starving for love, not knowing their heart is a magical kitchen. Open your heart. Open your magical kitchen and refuse to walk around the world begging for love. In your heart is all the love you need. Your heart can create any amount of love, not just for yourself, but for the whole world.

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.

Success is found balanced between optimism and realism, where it is unhindered by the weight of pessimism.

By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion.

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.

Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

I like movies where everything is dealt naturally and with a sense of realism.

In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.

I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.

The realism frightens me more than the bubble gum-y, heightened stuff.

Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

It's always judged on funny first, then the facts, and the realism, and the points that you're trying to make.

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.

...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions.