Dumbing down Quote by Sam Neill Download Open image “I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.” — Sam Neill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dumbing down Far Go Hate I hate Movie Movies Say Seems
Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50, now it's 3% good, 97% stupid. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People in movies and TV seem to be completely dumb to what's going on in the real world and relationships. — Will Gluck Copy Share Image
This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the… — Lionel Barrymore Copy Share Image
I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies. — Elmer Bernstein Copy Share Image
An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth. — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
[Hunt for the Wilderpeople] people seem to be just finding it hilarious in Sundance. I would think that judging on the feedback I get;… — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate. — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
The core of the film [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] is that relationship. Whether they're getting on or whether they're not. If that relationship works,… — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
Whilst filming 'Jurassic Park,' I watched a hurricane approaching the beach in Hawaii. My co-worker Laura Dern and I thought we might die, but… — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job. — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
I'm not sure it's affection for Australian or New Zealand films or not. I think it's just that there's something about 'Wilderpeople' that has… — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
I'm conscious that there's only a limited amount that I'll get done before I get shuffled into retirement, but I certainly have no desire… — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
If it looks like fun, and it looks like quality, then I'll do it. I don't feel compelled to work - or not to… — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return. How are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
And I can see that everything about this God has been purposely designed to poison our experience of life on earth, not to enhance… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about declining standards… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
“The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies. — Elmer Bernstein Copy Share Image
At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the nation [United States] is steadily dumbing down. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Getting proper change back at McDonalds: It's not rocket science, but it might as well be. — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
In Britain, we've tended to replace the kind of architectural culture valued in much of Europe with an in-flight magazine lifestyle - all branding,… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
“When we crumble under the exorbitant weight of conspicuous commodities and the material pressure in a universe of illusion, life may become disheveled and… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Everybody is in your business, gossiping and being mean spirited. It's different. Sometimes I'm like, "Do I want to do this?," because it's not… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
No one can know how long this dumbing-down of American religion will persist. But so long as it does, citizens should probably be more… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image