You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.
In order to make characters real - no matter what the character is doing - you have to see yourself as capable of having done that.
Sometimes what is 'real' because it takes place in the physical world, like 9/11, is so unreal on the level of the soul. Then other things, which in terms of the physical world seem so magical and unbelievable, on the level of the soul seem very real.
I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.
If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.
I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.
Being real is what is important.