Dean Devlin Quotes

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

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

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

London audiences are tricky, too. They don't laugh as much as the Northern audiences because, and I hate to say this, they are a bit cleverer normally, and they are picking up on all the little details and listening more carefully.

Your audience is a lot smarter than you realize.

I don't underestimate audiences' intelligence. Audiences are much brighter than media gives them credit for. When people went to a movie once a week in the 1930s and that was their only exposure to media, you were required to do a different grammar.

I think HBO seems to have an extraordinary clever knack of catching the pulse of its audience. It really, really knows its audience.

Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.

When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience.

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.

It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with.

I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.

You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.

Commercial television has underestimated the intelligence of the public.

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

I do feel if we underestimate the viewer, it's at our own peril.

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

As an actor, early on, you learn that the audience is never wrong. And if you think they are wrong, you need to find a different way to make a living. Collectively the audience is smarter than you will ever, ever be.

Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.

When you read the book, you paint the picture but when you adapt a book then the audience will, by and large, say the book was better and every filmmaker knows this.

Julie' has not been perceived as a sleazy film, and I am grateful for that.

Stars work because of familiarity. They fill theatres because audiences know who they are. There is a brand equity. But there are films strong enough to not need stars, or films that should not be made with stars at all, where only fresh faces will do. So I make the decisions accordingly.

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

The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.

Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.