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Peter Morgan’s writing is so much about what you don’t say: you’re saying one thing but there’s 10 other things going on, and those are the best writers like Chekhov… they’re masters at a sort of naturalism, and yet there is all the subtext.
I’m supposed to be the guy who hates naturalism.
There’s some actors that go easily between drama and comedy because they play the naturalism of the role, and they just have natural timing.
I think of being ornate as a Victorian quality, little to do with Shakespeare. But even Dickens wasn’t ornate; he wrote with flow and naturalism.
‘W1A’ is heightened naturalism, whereas ‘The Windsors’ is like the fever dream of a ‘National Enquirer’ reader.
Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitations.
‘Batman Begins’ came out and it was really successful, and it had gritty naturalism. And suddenly… I can’t tell you how many movies I was pitched where it was, ‘We want to do what you did with ‘Batman’ but with ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,’ or whatever.
I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist’s early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.
Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines.
I like a naturalism to my dialogue and my comedy. I would rather have a few jokes sail by that might be more subtle than have every single joke hit hard. I would rather the comedy come out of character as opposed to feeling forced. Even if you’re giving some laughs up for it.
Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.
We’ve all been influenced by American naturalism, and to ignore that entirely would be impossible for me as someone who works primarily in film.
The speculative object and the practical object of philosophy as Naturalism, science and pleasure, coincide on this point: it is always a matter of denouncing the illusion, the false infinite, the infinity of religion and all of the theologico-erotic-oneiric myths in which it is expressed.
I’m not sure that Liberation Theology has ever satisfactorily resolved the tensions between Marxism’s ‘social naturalism’ (the claim that all beliefs have their origins in social practice) and religion’s supernaturalism (the claims that its beliefs are underwritten by divine will).
But what I think I like about coming-of-age stories is that there’s everything in them. It’s a genre that kind of contains everything: you have the chronicle, you can go into naturalism, but it’s also about transforming physically, so it’s kind of a fantastical genre.
For my money, when you’re doing an on-camera performance, unless it’s for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.
Naturalism is a counterpart to theism. Theism says there’s the physical world and God. Naturalism says there’s only the natural world. There are no spirits, no deities, or anything else.
Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.
We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.
When the vision of the ‘Nude’ flashed upon me, I knew that it would break forever the enslaving chains of Naturalism.
American naturalism is what my indulgent actor side loves: a bit of Tennessee Williams, a bit of Clifford Odets, August Wilson – I would just love to tackle some of that.
