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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

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

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.

We need realism to deal with reality.

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 isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing.

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

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