Sam Neill Quotes

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.

I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.

The biggest problems with movies are expectations.

Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.

I make commercial films only. I don't make small, boring films.

Everything in television is dumbing down even further and it won't stop until somebody dies.

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

The so-called intellectuals don't like my films.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

Today it's not culture; it's box office.

There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

I strongly believe cinema is popular culture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's life.

Since I got into the movies, 'Running Scared,' that did $40 million. 'Princess Bride,' I got good reviews for the character Miracle Max. 'Memories of Me' didn't do well. 'Throw Mama from the Train' did $70 million. 'Harry and Sally' did 95 or 96. 'City Slickers' did $120 million.

I've been offered a few movies lately, but I don't want to do a movie just for the sake of saying, 'Oh, boy! There's popcorn involved in this.'

Hollywood has been an enormous part of my life, as I know it has been for countless fans all over the world.

Bollywood is an industry that is closer to making more entertainment-based films than anything else because people here are bothered about money.

Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a welcoming community where you live.

Cinema now can't be just about introspection and atma manthan; such topics won't work.

I am the last person who has any judgement about any kind of cinema, least of all commercial cinema because I am a product of commercial cinema.

TV has the most reach among the audience. Movies are watched only by those who like cinema.

Films are meant for the masses, for the purpose of entertainment.