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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction.
My parents were real people. They didn't put on airs or false faces. They were what they were.
Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
I'm really interested in real people in extraordinary situations. The detail and reality to that.
My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.
I've had my best experience as a filmmaker with true stories about real people and real cultures.
I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.
The identity of Studio Ghibli movies are how the characters move. They move like live, real people.
I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.
I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.
You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other.
I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.
The thing with drama is you're allowed to invent people who are maybe slightly better than real people.
I worry that if you see a row of self-checkouts, you think, 'That all used to be jobs and real people.'
I like tackling problems that I can see making an impact on real people and real businesses immediately.
I found out that superstars Winkler and William Shatner are real people, and I was so thankful for that.
I find that using real people as models keeps me from getting too formulaic in the designs of characters.
The real people who suffer when business is leaving or not successful are the people in the middle class.
If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people', you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.
I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.
There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.
A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.
What sometimes annoys me about the arts is increasingly that we have to put real people on screen or stage.
The big percentage is us, the real people, and we have to say something. You have to speak up. You have to.
Docudrama is not really my game, but it's interesting to play real people; it's interesting to play 'real.'
We made this movie for $17, and nobody got anything. So it never dawned on me that we would get real people.
Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
I think Hollywood has this reputation of being fake, but there is real people, and you can choose and try and see.
Anybody who works with me knows this: I always repeat wardrobe in my characters. We're trying to play real people.
I've done a lot of movies based on real people, real situations, non-fiction books, magazine articles, life rights.
The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.
I'm after people that want to fight, who are the real people. The real fighting men, that's what I want to deal with.
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
We continue to focus on actually solving problems that real people have and not being distracted by what power users want.
I love storytelling. I love characters that are complicated and layered, real people, that you see why they do what they do.
MasterChef's' about real people and for real people. It's aspirational and inspirational. There's nothing snobbish about it.
I think there is a big difference between real people and Internet people. Real life people understand that this is a sport.
I started writing 'God's War' knowing that I wanted to write about real people on a resource-strapped planet at perpetual war.
People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.
When more land is locked up by the federal government, real people suffer, and opportunities for future prosperity are reduced.
People have said, 'You don't need to do any more biopics. You don't need to play any more real people.' I don't agree with that.
I think people are interesting enough. People with mental illness, or just real people going through real circumstances in life.
It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.
In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.
Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.
Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.