Media Realism Quotes

You don't get music in your daily life, do you? Even in a movie, it's unnatural to have music. I always feel it's unnatural. But I want to make it not unnatural, to construct reality in another sense.

Don't take social media seriously. Don't buy into the hype.

The worst thing about this modern world is that people think you get killed on television with zero pain and zero blood. It must enter into kids' heads that it's not very messy to kill somebody, and it doesn't hurt that much. That's a real sickness to me. That's a real sick thing.

Why focus on what somebody might think? Nobody talks [on TV] like people really talk most of the time.

Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.

In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a play is a set of fictional, symbolic representations. An actor is one who symbolizes other people, real or imagined. [...] Also some years ago it was reported that when Edward G. Robinson, who used to play gangster roles with extraordinary vividness, visited Chicago, local hoodlums would telephone him at his hotel to pay their professional respects.

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

I actuall have to defend realism in theatre because I think TV does it badly - so corrupted by layers of bureaucrats who want to leave examination or psychology.

I think viewers realize that people are a lot more three-dimensional than TV has traditionally portrayed them, particularly in news.

I don't think you realize how often on television people are not like anyone we know or have known.

In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.

People in movies and TV seem to be completely dumb to what's going on in the real world and relationships.