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  • Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic. -- Douglas Sirk
  • Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy. -- Phillip E. Johnson
  • It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting. -- Adam Brody
  • All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so. -- Phillip E. Johnson
  • Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy. -- Phillip E. Johnson
  • If you're drawing humans, it can be detrimental to be too naturalistic, which is like animating little corpses. -- Henry Selick
  • It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws. -- Hans Hofmann
  • Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality. -- Phillip E. Johnson
  • From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots. -- Mikhail Bakunin
  • For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way. -- Simon Beaufoy
  • The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple. -- Pedro Almodovar
  • I'm dying to do a tiny indie and play something totally naturalistic without any sort of constraints on me. Something where I can shock everyone. -- Lily James
  • The complaint with me being on stage was always that I was slightly too naturalistic and not projecting enough. I've got quite a soft voice, so that didn't help. -- Lucy Griffiths
  • If the paying public demands naturalistic art, then an artist can use his skills to produce such pictures - but these are to be clearly distinguished from the artist's own art. -- Piet Mondrian
  • I began as a naturalistic painter. Very quickly I felt the urgent need for a more concise form of expression and an economy of means. I never stopped progressing toward abstraction. -- Piet Mondrian
  • I'm one of a generation brought up on television whose acting is more 'naturalistic', whereas with some of the older generation it's more heightened. But I think there's room for both styles. -- David Oyelowo
  • I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I would see these same people writing very respectfully about ordinary naturalistic plays. -- David Lindsay-Abaire
  • The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator. -- Henry M. Morris
  • The great thing I like about the sci-fi genre is there's a lot of different latitude for a lot of different kinds of behavior. You can be a very larger-than-life villain, or a very naturalistic villain, and all of it seems to fit. -- Mark Pellegrino
  • When you think of the 'Exorcist,' you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real. -- Matt Reeves
  • I don't understand why people don't use improvisation, especially in comedy films, but also, for me, you get more naturalism, and that's why I like the naturalistic performances and strange rhythms and the way that people genuinely interact captured rather than sort of very mannered performances. -- Alice Lowe
  • The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation. In other words, it becomes a religion acceptable to the contemporary, naturalistic mind only when it ceases to be a religion. -- Julian Baggini
  • I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on. -- Jarvis Cocker
  • What Christopher Nolan and I have done with 'Superman' is try to bring the same naturalistic approach that we adopted for the 'Batman' trilogy. We always had a naturalistic approach; we want our stories to be rooted in reality, like they could happen in the same world we live in. -- David S. Goyer
  • I find that 'Ghostbusters' and 'Alien' actually have a lot in common in that they're both so naturalistic in the performances. It feels like people you could be hanging out with right now in this room, yet they're on a spaceship or killing ghosts. But the way they talk is never heightened or otherwordly. -- Akiva Schaffer
  • There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To me it does not matter, as long as it's good. I like both kinds. Although the common reader seems to prefer the first, which is to be expected, and who would blame her? -- Per Petterson
  • I'm a fan of the European style, naturalistic thriller. -- George Ratliff
  • Virtually every discipline and endeavor is presently under a naturalistic pall. -- William A. Dembski
  • To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions. -- Albert Mohler
  • If life can emerge just from naturalistic circumstances, then God is out of a job. -- Lee Strobel
  • No problem is more crucial for a naturalistic view of the world than the mind-body problem. -- Roy Wood Sellars
  • I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative. -- Howard Barker
  • The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience. -- Sid Grossman
  • Unlike film, live theater is an anti-naturalistic medium in which character is mainly illuminated through speech and movement. -- Terry Teachout
  • Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted... -- Sigfried Giedion
  • You need help when you're starting out. On the other hand, some people are very naturalistic to begin with. -- David Naughton
  • It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws -- Hans Hofmann
  • Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art. -- Clement Greenberg
  • In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible. -- Ralph Fiennes
  • There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility. -- Raymond Smullyan
  • It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism, -- Antony Flew
  • By putting the first-person point of view in a naturalistic perspective, I believe that we may genuinely come to understand it for the first time. -- Hilary Kornblith
  • When you break into song, it's not about dialogue, it's not about how you would speak in a naturalistic sense-it's about expressing your inner torment or your inner joy. -- Julie Taymor
  • There is a worry that many have expressed that, on the naturalistic way of approaching philosophical questions, philosophy will somehow be co-opted by science. I'm not much worried about this. -- Hilary Kornblith
  • Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way the way that 'No Strings Attached' is. -- Ivan Reitman
  • Every day I studied the nude, and movement in the streets and in the shops. Out of the naturalistic surface with all its variations I wanted to derive the pictorially determined surface. -- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • It's the demand in many ways of modern television drama - it's very low key and naturalistic, and, generally speaking, the characters that I've played have not been low key and naturalistic. -- Rowan Atkinson
  • I only like naturalistic stories. I love short, fantastic stories that cast a spell over the reader, that transport you instantly to another place with another set of rules, somewhere imagined by someone else. -- Nicholas Royle
  • Akhenaten's allegedly monotheistic worship of Aten and the more naturalistic art produced during his reign, a revolutionary break from the more formal art of earlier periods, have made him a sympathetic figure to many. -- Pamela Sargent
  • The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly reduced all philosophical thought and deduction to-- ironically-fait h! -- Ravi Zacharias
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