The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
There will always be voices that basically say: Unless it's the perfect solution, we want no solution. That is unrealistic.
The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.
Nobody lives happily ever after, because that is extremely unrealistic.
I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.
For all the spectacle of CGI, there's something alien and unreal about that domain, like a videogame.
My things really are written with an appalling lack of practicality!
Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly
The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.
I don't want realism. I want magic!
Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
With some CGI, I think the brain slightly perceives that things aren't real. There's no gravity, the light's not quite real, the shadows aren't quite real.
