“Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not.” Has BeensIdeasFilmLanguageAudienceHugePagesScriptsSophisticatedBlockbuster Author:Connie Nielsen
“But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.” ThinkingFilmSophisticatedCinematic Author:Mike Leigh
“I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.” TryingMatterFilmWishMoralColorRaisesCriticsSophisticatedAnna Author:James McBride
“I just devoured all of his [Buster Keaton’s] films because his sense of comic timing was amazing. He’s the closest a human being has ever come to a cartoon character. And I was just amazed at his sense of character and timing, the humor. It's all just so…sophisticated, even when you watch it today.” HumansCharacterTodayFilmHuman BeingsWatchesComicClosestTimingSophisticatedAmazedCartoonCartoon CharacterBusters Author:John Lasseter