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One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

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

You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

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

I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.

Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

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.