Tony Goldwyn Quotes

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

Your audience is a lot smarter than you realize.

Commercial television has underestimated the intelligence of the public.

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

We should never overestimate an audience's culture, but we should never underestimate their intelligence.

I guess you'd have to say that sometimes the audience is smarter than the critics.

People are not stupid.

You can always trust that an audience is smarter than a studio thinks it is.

I think the audience is pretty intelligent.

But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

I've never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They're always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for.

I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.

People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

I think that if Hollywood has a problem, it constantly underestimates the intelligence and integrity of fans.

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Just because I try to read a lot of stuff doesn't mean I can fully conceptualize all of these intense, big, abstract ideas.

I really feel strongly that we don't need to dumb things down for children.

These audiences are so damn smart, way smarter than the studios give them credit for.

A lot of television assumes the viewer is a bit daft, and I don't think they are.

Audiences are savvy. You can never go wrong assuming the best of them.

Assuming audiences to be dumb, that's a big fallacy.