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

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

Fate is written in the face.

A different language is a different vision of life.

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

You exist only in what you do.

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

I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.

I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.

If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.

If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.

In 'Roma,' I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So close. I am always conscious of that, and it thrills me. Imagine being in a traffic jam at the Coliseum! Rome is the most wonderful movie set in the world... As was the case with many of my film ideas, it was inspired by a dream.

When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.

No matter what happens always keep your childhood innocence. Its the most important thing.

There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self we gain immeasurably.

If you see with innocent eyes everything is divine.

There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.

The visionary is the only realist.

I only understand realism.

But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

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

We need realism to deal with reality.

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story.

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.

I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.

In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.

Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve, while at the same recognizing that realism should never be confused with capitulation.