Anyone who magnifies the power of a television talk show is very unrealistic.
In most movies, they show you somebody who is perfect looks-wise, and skills-wise, and the movie doesn't give you a choice.
I have a real problem with watching movies where I see this perfect woman who is married to the man in question, who has a perfect life, who has perfect hair, perfect clothes, and doesn't give you any of the kind of reality that you're used to.
I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
It's ironic to watch a dress on a mannequin or a model on a catwalk who's not anything like the person that's going to buy it.
That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always want a little more. So for me, it's a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.
All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.
Not everyone relates to being a blond girl with blue eyes and is proportioned so she could barely walk if she was a real person.
There's a reason why there's a problem with bodies, and it's because you never actually get to see any normal versions of them.
You just have to kind of remember that it's just a character on TV. A lot of times people just forgot that and it's easy to do.
The greenness of Ireland is a false greenness, after all. Not that it isn't green - the place can still make you have to pull off and swallow one of your heart pills. It's that the greenness doesn't mean what it seems. It doesn't encode a pastoral past, much less a timeless vale where wee folk trip the demesne.
Indian films have this obsession with hygienic clean spaces, even though the country's not so clean. They're either shot in the studios or shot in London, in America, in Switzerland - clean places. Everywhere except India.
Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.
When you watch stuff that is YA, it looks like it's been made YA. It doesn't look real.
Everyone knows Summer League isn't the real deal.
You can no longer just have a magazine that shows you this glossy impervious image of women - in the studio, artificial, wearing a push-up bra.
They could not truly look dead, because they did not ever look alive.
I don't think there is a fictional character who resembles me because fictional characters are not real!
