Sean Baker Quotes

I like to keep my films close to reality.

I've put my days of fantasy behind me and make authentic realistic films.

Even in the realest American cinema that I see, there's still not that sense that this is reality. There's still that sense that you are watching a movie. And hopefully, if we did get our jobs right, that sense disappears when you watch this movie.

The best movies are rooted in reality.

I really don't have a problem showing the ugly side of people. If that means my wearing no makeup, that's fine. To me, that's beautiful.

I think the good thing about Dogme is that it forces you into an extreme sense of reality because there's no artificial light and no set design and all of those icings on the cake that you usually have on a movie.

I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.

Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real.

I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth.

I learned from making a few of these low-budget videos early on that the best way to go about doing it is just to keep it honest and real.

I would love to do realistic films that are entertaining.

The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough.

I like movies where everything is dealt naturally and with a sense of realism.

Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.

If you're trying to be realistic and bring real life to the screen, you are going to have different elements. That's what I'm trying to do. As I make the movie, different elements come in naturally.

I was trying to play as real possible - I wanted everything to be real.

Keeping it real is the key and I don't know how they've done that week after week. I think the key is that everybody can sort of empathize with [The Office].

That's what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.

I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people.

I think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don't think it's honest.

I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It's not the way people talk in life at all.

Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.

More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle

Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.

And there's also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like.