History Quotes / LowestCommonDenominator

->''"What matters finally is not the world's judgement of oneself but one's own judgement of the world. Any writer who lacks this final arrogance will not survive long in [[{{Eagleland}} America.]] That wide graveyard of stillborn talents which contains so much of the brief ignoble history of American letters is a tribute to [[DemocracyIsBad the power of a democracy]] to destroy its critics, brave fools and passionate men."''

->''"Never underestimate your audience. They're generally sensitive, intelligent people who respond positively to quality entertainment."''

->''It is the present, and I find myself sitting in an office. At first, I think that somebody is making a shopping list. But then, I realize that I am in the production office of ''That's Life!'' The liver and kidneys referred to are this week's star organ transplant. And as for the vegetables, [...] they are this week's audience.''

->''"I know it’s cool to hate M. Night, especially now, but I hate because I loved. I really dig his earlier movies, and it hurts to see just how severe his downturn has been... Even so, I’d rather have an Creator/MNightShyamalan on his worst day than, say, a Brett Ratner, who might as well not exist. Who ever watched a movie and said “oh that shot was classic Ratner…” Yeah, Ratner and directors of his ilk [[SoOkayItsAverage get stuff made on time and on budget]], but there’s not an ounce of creativity. You might as well just dump a sack of bricks into the director’s chair for all the flair and invention you’ll get. What a choice. M. Night Shyamalan, or a sack of bricks."''\\
--'''[[http://franticplanet.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/the-self-destruction-of-m-night-shyamalan/ Stuart Millard]]'''

->''"This movie was buried before it was even released. A director that [[OnlyOneName only goes by a one name moniker]] spends nearly 30 million of his own money and films in 28 countries for his own vanity project. Reviewers and the studio saw it as pretentious overindulgence. The studio shelved it for two years and limped it out in theaters. When it was released, reviewers took its production and shelving [[CausticCritic to rip it apart before even watching it]]... That explains the one a**hole in my audience who was more than vocal about his dislike of the movie [[{{Hatedom}} and camped outside the exit to tell people who liked it otherwise]]. I wanted to bitch him out in front of his friends, but there’s no point. He will always be the Creator/MichaelBay wanking, Music/MichaelBolton loving jack off and there is nothing I can do to convince him this was a great movie."''

->''"Publishers these days tend to treat gaming history like a great big party buffet full of lovely dishes: they randomly pick a sherry trifle with some [[NostalgiaFilter nostalgia value]] and [[VideoGameRemake name recognition]], do a great big squirty dump into it, and then they push it back into our face going, 'Look, now there's ''more'' trifle! Give us cash!'... So the first thing we do when we set out to slop together a drab, tick-the-boxes, committee-designed, work-the-name-recognition-'til-its-organs-of-generation-dry-up-and-blow-away-like-dandelion-seeds reboot is to isolate everything that gave the original its unique appeal, edge, and soul, put on our big boots and stamp and stamp and stamp, until it can be posted through the letterbox of an ungrateful majority audience who'd be afraid of their own farts if they sounded one demitone higher than usual. "''

->''[Slitscan's audience] is best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed. Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections.''
-->-- '''Kathy Torrance''', ''Literature/{{Idoru}}''.

->''Earlier in the video of... Times Square at 1:30 in the morning with thousands of people waiting to see if we could successfully land. And although we go there for the science questions, I don't think they were there at 1:30 in the morning because they're dying to know about the PH and salinity of the ancient aqueous environmental stability of Mars.''

-->--'''Victor Lewis-Smith''

-->--'''Adam Steltzner''', Mars Science Laboratory lead engineer for Entry, Decent and Landing.

-->--'''Adam Steltzner'', Mars Science Laboratory lead engineer for Entry, Decent and Landing.

->''">We want to appeal to the Call of Duty audience."''
-->--'''/v/'''

->“I’d like to make an HD game that will wow the players. I want to show that Japan can still keep up with the USA when it comes next gen technology. Our goal is to become something like the developers of the Fallout series, Bethesda Softworks.”
-->--'''Michihiko Inaba''', of [[http://www.siliconera.com/2012/12/14/inspired-by-bethesda-softworks-monolith-soft-looks-forward-to-jumping-into-the-next-gen/ Monolith Soft]]

-->--'''Cameron Mitchell''', ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'', episode ''200''

->''"I don't care how many people actually likes [[Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon this]]. The [assholes] who are saying 'check your brain in at the door' checked their brains as soon as they were given birth to"

->''">We want to appeal to the Call of Duty audience."

->''"Listen. The yucks who look at television don't know the difference between ErnestHemingway and Huntz Hall. What do they care about important writers? What they want is shows where one guy kicks another guy in the belly while a dame leans over 'em with her cakes falling out of her negligee. Or domestic comedies where the whole family gets together to screw gruff old Dad. Or quiz shows where people get put in isolation booths and develop coronary occlusion before your very eyes ... Important writers! Remember when NBC tried to beef up their Sunday nights with important writers? Plays by Robert Sherwood--Thornton Wilder--Ferenc Molnar. Important enough for you? ... So what happened? I'll tell you what: forty million people nearly broke off their dials turning back to Ed Sullivan to watch a dog fart 'The Star-Spangled Banner!'"''

->''"Listen. The yucks who look at television don't know the difference between ErnestHemingway and Huntz Hall. What do they care about important writers? What they want is shows where one guy kicks another guy in the belly while a dame leans over 'em with her cakes falling out of her negligee. Or domestic comedies where the whole family gets together to screw gruff old Dad. Or quiz shows where people get put in isolation booths and develop coronary occlusion before your very eyes ... Important writers! Rembmer when NBC tried to beef up their Sunday nights with important writers? Plays by Robert Sherwood--Thornton Wilder--Ferenc Molnar. Important enough for you? ... So what happened? I'll tell you what: forty million people nearly broke off their dials turning back to Ed Sullivan to watch a dog fart 'The Star-Spangled Banner!'"''