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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.

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.

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

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

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

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.

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

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.