I've always wanted to do pieces that have an integral sense of realism and aren't just there for titillation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I think about how I want to reach an audience, I just wanted to make pieces that were inspired by something that gave me so much pleasure.
One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
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.
I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.
I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.
In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.
I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.
Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing.
I would rather be part of something that is entertaining than realistic.
I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.