Naturalism Quotes

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

I hate the naturalism, ... especially in the French films. They don`t care about the picture. ... And they speak and they speak. It`s a drama in a kitchen, a couple fighting.

To me, naturalism is the death of drama. Lee Strasberg came along and the Method f***ed everything up. I find people like Celia Johnson are my favorite actors. I was brought up on films like Brief Encounter, and for me they expressed enormous truth. Marlon Brando does not have the monopoly on truth!

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.