Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not.
Connie Nielsen
Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
I thought 'ER' was a really good script, but I didn't have any inkling that it would become the phenomenon that it did, and I don't think anybody did back then.
You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing.
Some people say that they read the first 20 pages, and then decide if they want to do the film or not. But, I have to read the entire thing 'cause anything can change in a script.
We're getting dumbed down, taste-wise.
Alton Brown
Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
You could argue that as web audiences have grown larger and advertisers have demanded scale, the web has dumbed down - like the mainstream media we so mocked.
Mainstream animated movies are dumbed-down and sanitised: they make the world in their own image rather than exploring the limitless possibilities that are out there.
I don't want to do only blockbusters.
Orlando Bloom
Everybody's trying to make blockbusters.
Sydney Pollack
The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so.
Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.
Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice.
I love being in my 40s.
Laura Dern
Age 50 is a lot tougher than 40s.
Bill Rodgers
Swing will never sound as good as it did in the '40s.
Trey Anastasio
I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.
Film roles really did start to dry up when I got into my 40s.
I was having my teens in my 30s.
Julie Walters
For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts.
Joey Lauren Adams
I am a daddy's girl at heart, even though I'm in my 30s.
Katee Sackhoff
Also, I think women really come into their own in their 30s.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
In your mid-30s, you have to take inventory, or you'll stumble.
I started having a lot of problems with my voice in my mid-30s.
You have to go back to the '30s and '40s to see a film that's any good.
Most shows are normally 40 or 50 pages.
Tom Verica
I should be concentrating on writing pages.
R. L. Stine
Life passes into pages if it passes into anything.
James Salter
Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word.
I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages.
It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating.
I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.
Linda Hunt
Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.
Peter Davison
In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.
Eartha Kitt
The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.
Young people are more intelligent and sophisticated.
Sometimes I wear red lipstick - it makes me feel sophisticated.
When you give, you receive.
Alek Wek
For it is in giving that we receive.
Francis of Assisi
You have to give to be able to receive.
Jaime Winstone
To give your best is to receive the best.
I am happy to receive any items of jewelry.
Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.
I like the big questions.
Christy Turlington
We have to ask the tough questions.
Megyn Kelly
I don't have answers. I have questions.
James Hillman
Every clarification breeds new questions.
Arthur Bloch
I don't think there are any rude questions.
I don't work with people who ask me questions.
I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions.
I was brought up as a physicist.
Gerhard Herzberg
I was brought up as a normal kid.
Ram Charan
I was brought up to reuse things.
Annabelle Selldorf
I was brought up on animal grease.
Rita Moreno
I'm the man that brought you the mullet.
Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.
I am a Hindu, brought up mostly in India.
I'm good with a script.
Mayim Bialik
I'm not used to a script.
Ryan Seacrest
The script is just a blueprint.
Gavin O'Connor
I've never had a written script.
Don Rickles
I would never do a sexist script.
I love TV, and I love a good script.
I always write the script by myself.
I loved to fall down.
Dick Van Dyke
I want to settle down.
Ali Fazal
I never read lying down.
Darryl Pinckney
I enjoy 'down South' music.
Lil Uzi Vert
What goes up must come down.
I have no plans to slow down.
There's no down time any more.
My entire life has been a lie.
Bobby Darin
I've had asthma my entire life.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Entire families work for Xerox.
Anne M. Mulcahy
I span the entire geek spectrum.
Joe Abercrombie
I've been, like, 15 my entire life.
I wish I could do an entire spa day.
My entire career, I've been a worker.
I have fantastic ideas.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I like audacious ideas.
Gregory Benford
My novels are all ideas.
Michel Houellebecq
Ideas have consequences.
Robert Zubrin
I admire American ideas.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
Labor gives birth to ideas.
Language cares.
Howard Nemerov
Music is a language.
Youssou N'Dour
I love body language.
Anton Corbijn
Film is anti-language.
Sam Shepard
Language is a social art.
Language changes very fast.
I love the Spanish language.
I often don't read reviews.
Ian Mcewan
Often I feel I say too much.
Morrissey
Good is often the enemy of best.
Edwin Louis Cole
Siblings are often very opposite.
Alycia Debnam-Carey
Half a truth is often a great lie.
So, do you live around here often?
I should get a manicure more often.
I love Hindi films.
Stephanie March
I grew up on films.
Sam Rockwell
I love scary films.
Millie Bobby Brown
I love caper films.
Steven Soderbergh
I do like fantasy films.
I want to do more films.
I love working in films.
America is huge.
Ace Frehley
I'm a huge gamer.
Taran Killam
I'm a huge DVD fan.
John Singleton
I'm a huge Trekkie.
Dean Devlin
I'm a huge Tweeter.
I'm a huge art buff.
I'm a huge kale fan.
My audience is God.
Jeremy Lin
Don't limit your audience.
Nash Grier
Each audience is different.
Prince
I work to please my audience.
Jerry Lee Lewis
I have to satisfy my audience.
That audience is there for me.
Above all, ignore the audience.
I like nice clothes, whether they're dodgy or not.
David Beckham
I don't worry about whether or not people like me.
Katherine Ryan
The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.
My goal is to beat you whether you're clean or dirty.
The jury is still out on whether I'm a genius or not.
Draw what you see.
Arne Glimcher
See and keep silent.
Francis Walsingham
I don't see any new coal.
Lynn Good
I always tell what I see.
Sylvia Browne
I'll see you in my dreams.
My fans can see me grow up.
See the ball; hit the ball.
I love New York.
Hillary Clinton
I like New York.
George Wendt
I love New York.
Alex Rodriguez
I love New York.
Kristaps Porzingis
I love New York.
Home is New York.
I'm from New York.
I loved 'Get Out.'
Charlie Brooker
Get rid of debt now.
Suze Orman
Value is what you get.
Warren Buffett
Stay hyped! Get chicks!
Rob Gronkowski
You give before you get.
I get to surf every day.
I cry every chance I get.
And one more thing.
Steve Jobs
I can't cook a thing.
Peter Morton
Love is a good thing.
Emily V. Gordon
Sport is not my thing.
Rupert Friend
War is a profane thing.
I am a thing of beauty.
No one is any one thing.
Fun is good.
Dr. Seuss
God is good.
Ty Dolla Sign
Ego is good.
Thomas Leonard
Make good art.
Neil Gaiman
Bling is good.
God is so good.
I was a good kid.