Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding.
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.
The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.
Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.
We have to have a more realistic foreign policy and not a utopian one where we say, oh, we're going to spread freedom and democracy, and everybody in the Middle East is going to love us. They are not going to love us.
Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic.
A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.
There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff. ' I want all the action to look realistic.
I've always been someone that sets achievable short-term goals. I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible. So I've just always been someone that's sort of reassessed where I'm at, and set goals that are realistic. And luckily, I've had plenty of chances to recalibrate and adjust, and good fortune's come my way.
Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border.
It's not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I've got a business in London. I beat myself up about it all the time.
My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.
You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks. . . although the latter is much less realistic.
As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.
I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
People in my neighborhood inspired me to sing. Believe in your ability no matter what, but be realistic with yourself and your ability.
It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.
Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence or repression.