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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
We need realism to deal with reality.
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.
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing.
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 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.
If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would be an honorary one, conferred only on work that actually builds unsentimental reality on the page, that matches the complexity of life with an equally rich arrangement in language.
One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.