America Quote by Elmer Bernstein

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

— Fiona Shaw

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

— Ben Hecht

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

— Neil Jordan

I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.

— Sam Neill

Often, American audiences are underestimated by producers and movie studios. They often think we're dumber than we are.

— Ben Feldman

Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about…

— Neil Jordan

It's very easy to make a movie that confirms the worst in us.

— Judge Reinhold

I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.

— Karel Reisz

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big…

— Alexander Payne

It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.

— Roland Emmerich

I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of…

— Adam McKay