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3[[folder: Advertising]]
4
5->''"It's our belief that you're such a stupid motherfucker, you'll fall for this bullshit! Guaranteed!"''
6-->--''Advertising/BigBillHells''
7
8[[/folder]]
9
10[[folder: Film – Live Action]]
11
12->'''Russell:''' Kids can spot phonies; they're very smart.\
13'''Noah Vanderhoff:''' Kids know dick. I watch 'em in my arcades. They stand there like rats hittin' the feeder bar to get a food pellet. As long as they keep pumpin' in the quarters, who gives a shit, right?
14-->-- ''Film/WaynesWorld''
15
16->"You people! If there isn't a movie about it, it's not worth knowing, is it?!"
17-->-- '''Metatron,''' ''Film/{{Dogma}}''
18
19[[/folder]]
20
21[[folder: Literature]]
22
23->''"Important writers! Remember when Creator/{{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 [[LowestCommonDenominator turning back to Ed Sullivan]] [[DancingBear to watch a dog fart 'The Star-Spangled Banner!']]"''
24-->-- '''Oscar Hoffa,''' ''Literature/RallyRoundTheFlagBoys.''
25
26->'''I asked Mr. Vann which [[UsefulNotes/BritishEducationSystem O levels]] you need to write [[SitCom situation comedy]] for television. Mr. Vann said you don't need qualifications at all, you just need to be a moron."''
27-->-- ''The Secret Diary of Literature/AdrianMole Aged 13¾''
28[[/folder]]
29
30[[folder: Live-Action TV]]
31
32->'''[[ExecutiveMeddling Myra:]]''' Will people know who Creator/RudyardKipling is?\
33'''Sean & Beverly:''' ''Yes.''\
34'''Myra:''' Are you sure?\
35'''Beverly:''' Do ''you'' know who he is?\
36'''Myra:''' The writer guy?\
37'''Beverly:''' There you go! [[StealthInsult See? People aren't as stupid as you might think!]]
38-->-- ''Series/{{Episodes}}''
39
40->"Why are we even going after this idiot demographic?"
41-->-- ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment''
42
43->'''Creator/WayneBrady:''' Yea, [[Theatre/TheTwoGentlemenOfVerona the two revenuers from Verona approacheth]]!\
44''[dead silence]''\
45'''Wayne:''' Read a book, people!
46-->-- ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'', "Scenes from a Hat" suggestion "Outtakes from the Hillbilly Shakespeare Festival"
47
48->"Your opinions have been variously described as 'rabid', 'pig-ignorant' and 'stultifyingly ill-informed'. Thanks for those."
49-->-- ''Series/BrassEye''
50
51[[/folder]]
52
53[[folder: Music]]
54
55->''You goin' over niggas' heads [[Music/LupeFiasco Lu]]'' (Dumb it down)\
56''They tellin' me that they don't feel you'' (Dumb it down)\
57''We ain't graduate from school nigga'' (Dumb it down)\
58''Them big words ain't cool nigga'' (Dumb it down)\
59''Yeah I heard Mean and Vicious nigga'' (Dumb it down)\
60''Make a song for the bitches nigga'' (Dumb it down)\
61''We don't care about the weather nigga'' (Dumb it down)\
62''You'll sell more records if you'' (Dumb it down)''
63-->-- '''Music/LupeFiasco,''' ''Dumb It Down.''
64
65->''Give the People what they want\
66And they'll get what they deserve''
67-->-- '''Music/TheKinks'''
68
69[[/folder]]
70
71[[folder:Podcasts]]
72
73->'''Jay:''' There's this line from Creator/YaphetKotto where he says, "ASH WAS A GODDAMN ANDROID!" He says it offscreen; it's ADR'ed. And that's the studio saying, "We need to explain what this milk-man is. They're not gonna get that [[RoboticReveal he's a robot.]]"\
74'''Mike:''' They're gonna think he's just filled with cum.\
75'''Rich:''' "He's not an android, he was just very gay. Very, ''very'' gay."
76-->-- ''WebVideo/HalfInTheBag'' riffs ''{{Film/Alien}}'' (1979)
77
78[[/folder]]
79
80[[folder:Video Games]]
81
82->''"Hello,\
83With the rush of day operations, it's easy to lose focus and forget what the job is all about. As a reminder to all of you:\
841) Minds and emotions can be influenced by the media.\
85a) A crowd has the mental age of a 5 year old child.\
86b) It is our mission to orient and guide the child to higher understanding.\
87c) That understanding must keep the right interest at heart.\
882) Language and carefully chosen words are a form of influence.\
89a) Anyone can experience the world and express points of view.\
90b) Words are condensed ideas and the sole means for men to understand the world.\
91c) This is the power of Semiology and Rhetoric.\
923) Control is in the delivery of information.\
93a) Knowledge is power.\
94b) Today, knowledge is based on information.\
95c) Controlling access and the flow of information is the key to power.\
96d) With this power comes responsibility.\
97A bit simplistic, I admit, but it gets the point across.\
98Émilie Masse\
99Division Supervisor\
100Picus Confidential"''
101-->-- '''Émilie Masse''', ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution''
102
103[[/folder]]
104
105[[folder:Web Animation]]
106
107->"I found that the greatest danger was overthinking things. [='=][[AC:what is the most relevant fact?]][='=] the game might ask, listing everything we have established from [[SherlockScan blundering around the given scene]].\
108'Hmm' thinks I, 'well, perhaps the fact that the victim was killed with their own gun, indicating that the perpetrator probably hadn’t premeditated the crime. That seems like the biggest lead at present. Was that what I was supposed to click on?'"''\
109'''''*BUZZER*''''' "No, lose a point...the most relevant fact in the murder case was the fact that [='=][[AC:[[ShapedLikeItself somebody got murdered]]]][='=], which I thought had only been put on the list for completeness’ sake! The game does shit like this quite a few times. Have you had any ambition to challenge us with actual deductive puzzles? Or are you just content to poke us every 20 minutes so we don’t fall asleep?"
110-->-- '''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''' on ''VideoGame/MurderedSoulSuspect''
111
112->''(Haruhi finds Renge crying)''\
113'''Haruhi:''' Why are you crying?\
114'''Renge:''' ''Ouran: The Vaguely Abridged Series'' fans are idiots!\
115'''Haruhi:''' That's pretty much required for enjoying it, you know!
116-->-- ''WebVideo/OuranTheVaguelyAbridgedSeries''[[note]]after fans praised/lamented the series' end after watching the second-to-last episode.[[/note]]
117
118->''"...Wait, what even is evil? Oh no! We can't go there. Philosophy is the mortal enemy of shallow power fantasy and WishFulfillment. If we start exploring the very concept of evil, we might accidentally make the audience think, and then they'll start having actual expectations for our story."''
119-->-- '''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice — [[https://youtu.be/npEX8uRvUEo DARK LORDS]]'''
120
121[[/folder]]
122
123[[folder:Web Original]]
124
125->''The more substance and talking points you have in a show, the less attention you'll pay to the commercial break. Your mind would be too busy digesting and pondering the new information that was just received. U.S. media just can't have that. That would be a bullet in the heart of consumerism, capitalism, and the American Dream.''
126-->-- '''[[http://www.acidlogic.com/im_billhicks.htm Cody Wayne]]''', "Interesting Motherfuckers: Creator/BillHicks"
127
128->''The 'wealth gap' we often hear about is equaled by the 'intelligence gap' that is kept secret...Instead of creating better ads, you destroy the type of thinking that resists ads. Instead of creating superior products, you emotionally cripple people to the point where they feel secretly desperate to buy your product simply in order to feel normal and accepted by society.''
129-->-- '''[[http://metagearsolid.org/2011/07/video-games-in-the-master-plan/ Terry Wolfe]]'''
130
131->''"In any case, we felt *action* should be emphasized over *plot* — especially avoiding any complicated story line — to ensure the success of this series with its intended viewers."''
132-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers [[http://tfarchive.com/cartoons/bible/#154 series bible]]''
133
134->'''Creator/DaneCook:''' Why do they call bananas bananas? Shouldn't they be called [=FUN=]anas because they're fun and they're full of deliciousness? Isn't that like the point of eating a banana? Well that's why I eat a banana now STEP OFF!\
135'''Retarded audience:''' HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! That Dane Cook.....
136-->-- ''Website/UrbanDictionary''
137
138->''The first clue is the hilarious profusion of clocks inside the TARDIS. Part of this is a matter of packing in the 'he’s British!' signifiers, which, in American, means having him [[QuintessentialBritishGentleman wear a frock coat and be old-fashioned]], so lots of clocks and candles in the TARDIS. But it also is the most crassly literal-minded interpretation of 'Time Lord' imaginable. The Doctor has a TARDIS full of clocks to demonstrate that he’s a Time Lord, and for no other reason.''
139-->-- '''[[http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/clinging-to-the-skin-of-this-tiny-little-world-the-tv-movie/ Dr. El Sandifer]]''', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie The TV Movie]]"
140
141->''Why do the writers feel the need to point out that this episode is about Neelix by him suddenly becoming flavour of the month in the pre-credits sequence? It's like they don’t trust us to think that he is invaluable without showing us. Seriously, [[TheMainCharactersDoEverything every bugger and his dog needs him for something]] in the opening five minutes! It would a far better jolt to the system had he fallen ill in the course of a normal episode. If you treat the audience like idiots you get an idiotic audience.''
142-->-- '''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/voyager-season-four.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E12MortalCoil Mortal Coil]]"
143
144->''It's why ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'' was renamed ''Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'', because studios are convinced [[TooDumbToLive you're one retarded spasm away from flopping into a river and drowning]] because [[EpicFail the mittens pinned to your coat caught on a log]] at all times.''
145-->-- '''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''', "[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-kids-movies-clearly-made-by-people-who-hate-children/#ixzz2cMBQdcAJ 6 Kid's Movies Clearly Made by People Who Hate Children]]"
146
147->''Our story begins in the near future of 2017, during the Second American Civil War, which we know because the producers are kind enough to give us an opening crawl... We’re also told that Steel Harbor is 'the last Free City,' whatever the hell that means. Incidentally, in case you wandered in late, Barb Wire herself will give us [[ViewersAreGoldfish this exact same information]] after the opening sequence. Can’t decide whether to do a crawl or have your main character do a voiceover? Do both!''
148-->-- '''Chris Sims''' and '''Matt Wilson''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/barb-wire-pamela-anderson-movie-review-part-1/ on]] ''Film/BarbWire''
149
150->''A handy subtitle tells us that this is [='=]''Jamaica, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Caribbean]] -- 1668.''[='=] Wow. Gee, thanks. I would have never guessed which Jamaica this is without the clue. Being a pirate movie and all, maybe it's set in the Jamaica found in the Mediterranean or Jamaica, Sea of Japan. [[CausticCritic I'm just in a bad mood.]]''
151-->-- '''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Noah Antwiler]]''' [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/cutthroat-island/ on]] ''Film/CutthroatIsland''
152
153->''There was a cynical chuckle I heard when ''Film/SynecdocheNewYork'' ended. A chuckle I am familiar with due to my frequent trips to the theaters. It was a chuckle as if to say ''"What did I get into? Boy that Creator/CharlieKaufman is a goofball! This movie was so terrible and confusing, I missed out on [[GoodOlBoy NASCAR]] and my ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'' re-runs for this. You dragged me to see this art house crap? I never passed the third grade."''\
154Yup, that chuckle said all that.''
155-->-- '''[[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/synecdoche-new-york-2008-charlie-kaufman/ Miles Antwiler]]'''
156
157->''"Remember how in ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty Sons of Liberty]]'' Raiden was supposed to represent the player? It's no unforseen accident that he became unpopular. [[Creator/HideoKojima Kojima]] wanted to leave the series on a question mark, forcing players to examine and re-examine the game from every angle, until they found the deeper messages hidden between the lines. But, unfortunately for him, he overestimated the intelligence of his fanbase... This is where Raiden's transformation becomes iconic. Instead of listening to the advice of Snake, Raiden continued to allow his past to haunt him and determine his future. He [[AesopAmnesia didn't take a new name, start over, or see Rose for what she was.]] Likewise, players refused to give ''[=MGS2=]'' a second chance and find the deeper meanings; in this sense, Raiden [[StrawFan still represents the player]]... Seeing that his preaching was in vain, Kojima gave up on enlightening the players (like Snake [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids gave up on Philanthropy]]), and simply let Raiden become [[TestosteronePoisoning a badass killing machine with a big manly dick]]. Awesome!"''
158-->-- [[http://www.metagearsolid.org/reports_mgs4_soldout_4.html "Metal Gear Soldout"]]
159
160->''"The car now re-entered the main hall, but to [[spoiler:Sarah’s]] surprise the decor had changed. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Gone were the gothic furnishings of the haunted house, and in their place was a glitzy high school prom.]] Davina [[spoiler:and Neve]] were nowhere to be seen, but standing in the centre of the stage were a young couple, smiling and waving ecstatically to the audience. The guy was sporting a flashy suit and an outdated perm, while the girl had straight sandy hair and a billowing white dress. “Literature/{{Carrie}}”, whispered [[spoiler:Sarah]] to herself."''
161-->-- ''[[https://tellygunge.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/dhp-episode-2-horror-actresses-halloween-special-the-result/ Davina's House Party, Episode 2]]''
162
163->''"Also, if you are really afraid your audience is too dumb to know that a politician screwing the disabled is probably doing it economically--and not literally feeding them to wild animals--then go ahead label the wolves "economic adversity." But dear god,'' why do you have to label them "wolves"?"
164-->-- '''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''', "[[http://www.cracked.com/article_18680_political-cartoons-lowest-form-communication.html Political Cartoons: The Lowest Form of Communication]]"
165
166->''Explain {{Webcomic/xkcd}}: It's 'cause you're dumb.''
167-->--{{tagline}} of the [[http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page explain xkcd]] wiki
168
169->''Brenna refused to believe it when I told her that the plot revolves around the Empress of Time, who lives on the Island of Time where the Sands (all together now) OF TIME were created. All the same, that's the kind of situation we're talking about. Jesus Christ, people. Just call the island fucking Chronos or something. Spell it with a K if you have to. I can figure out that there’s some kind of'' time ''thing going on.''
170-->--'''''Webcomic/PennyArcade''''', [[https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2004/12/03/on-discomfort news post]] for [[https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/12/03/ "On Discomfort"]]
171
172[[/folder]]
173
174[[folder:Web Video]]
175
176->"To court a casual audience is to lose a casual audience. Because casual audiences don't decide what to play, they are simply told what to play!"
177-->-- '''WebVideo/TheRageaholic'''
178
179->'''Director Stuart Baird:''' So Picard's clone is just like him, then?\
180'''Producer Rick Berman:''' Naw, that's been done too much.\
181'''Baird:''' So he's ''younger'', then?\
182'''Berman:''' ''[barely awake]'' Yeah.\
183'''Baird:''' But he's got to be bald. Because if he's not bald, then the audience — even if we tell them — still won't understand the he's Picard's clone, 'cause Picard is ''the bald Captain.'' If he's not bald then no one will understand what happ—\
184'''Berman:''' OK, OK! He's bald.
185-->-- '''[[WebVideo/RedLetterMedia Harry S. Plinkett]]''' on ''[[Film/StarTrekNemesis Star Trek X: The Wrath of Shinzon]]''
186
187->''"Before seeing the movie, I put a question out on Twitter. It's like, 'If this movie flops, is it the end of this Film/DarkUniverse before it even gets going?' And multiple people were saying, 'It doesn't matter if it flops here, foreign market, foreign market, foreign release.' And so that idea of doing well overseas was in my brain while watching it, and it became more and more prevalent when the exposition was so on-the-nose and explaining what was happening and there's multiple flashbacks to a prologue just to keep reminding you exactly what's happening. And normally we say, 'Oh, this movie's made for dummies', but I think this movie's not made for dummies. I think this movie's made for people that don't speak English, and the foreign market is more important than making a decent movie."''
188-->-- '''Jay Bauman''' on ''Film/TheMummy2017'', ''WebVideo/HalfInTheBag''
189
190->"Good thing this can of spray paint turned into a [[AC:'Small Objects']] when I picked it up. I'd hate to actually think for ''myself'' about whether a spray can of paint was small."
191-->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMdJhP9UWcE George Weidman]]''' on ''VideoGame/Rage2011''
192
193->'''Gabriel:''' Marketers are mostly idiots.\
194'''[[Creator/BenCroshaw Yahtzee]]:''' Welllll... you ''say'' that, but [[HumansAreMorons people are also idiots]], so marketers know what they're talking about. Send a thief to catch a thief.
195-->-- ''LetsPlay/LetsDrownOut'' ''VideoGame/{{Ghostbusters|1990}}'' (Sega Megadrive)
196
197->''"The comic decides to inform us that a UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object. And y'know, I ''do'' think they did need that, since the only people who would enjoy this comic have a brain about the size of a seamonkey."''
198-->-- '''[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]''', in his review of ''Adventures of the Kool-Aid Man'' #1
199
200->''"Now here is how the game works because my viewers have never played a video game before"''
201-->-- '''WebVideo/ThirdRateGamer''' on ''VideoGame/CoolSpot''
202
203->'''Jacob:''' So how is everyone enjoying the show?\
204'''Audience:''' ''(Rigorous applause)''
205->'''Jacob:''' ''(AsideGlance)'' It's just that easy.
206-->-- '''WebVideo/{{Alpharad}}''', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWnoJav4Rs0 "Copypasta Theatre"]]''
207[[/folder]]
208
209[[folder:Western Animation]]
210
211->'''God:''' You people! This isn't new stuff! It's written in [[AsTheGoodBookSays books, scrolls, stone tablets!]] What do you want me to do, scribble it down on a bar napkin for you?\
212'''Bob:''' Would you? Because that would ''really'' help.
213-->-- ''WesternAnimation/GodTheDevilAndBob''
214
215->Don't theorize, accessorize!
216-->-- ''From an early ad for'' '''Franchise/{{Bratz}}''' ''dolls.''
217
218->'''Fry:''' Married? Jenny can't get married.\
219'''Leela:''' Why not? It's clever, it's unexpected.\
220'''Fry:''' But that's not why people watch TV. Clever things make people feel stupid, and unexpected things make them feel scared.
221-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E12WhenAliensAttack When Aliens Attack]]"
222
223->You kids don't know what you want! That's why you're still kids — '''[='=]cause you're stupid!'''
224-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E14TheItchyAndScratchyAndPoochieShow The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochy Show]]"
225
226->''[[StylisticSuck Okay, we ran out of budget]], but kids 6 to 10 will love it''
227-->-- ''[[VillainEpisode GlomTales]]'' theme, ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017''
228
229[[/folder]]
230
231[[folder:Real Life]]
232
233->''It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.''
234-->--'''Creator/{{Aristotle}}'''
235
236->"There's a sucker born every minute."
237-->-- '''[[BeamMeUpScotty Not]] P.T. Barnum'''
238
239->''While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.''
240-->-- '''Creator/AntonChekhov'''
241
242->''All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. Consequently, the greater the mass it is intended to reach, the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be. But if, as in propaganda for sticking out a war, the aim is to influence a whole people, we must avoid excessive intellectual demands on our public, and too much caution cannot be extended in this direction."''
243-->-- '''UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler''' telling it like it is, ''Literature/MeinKampf''
244
245->''Trust me, this process is so simple you could break out the Crayolas and storyboard the whole thing yourself using nothing more complicated than stick figures and tracings of your own hand. Be warned, however, most studio execs don't have the attention span to follow the most energetic and entertaining of storyboard pitches for more than three minutes before they start checking their Blackberries for their lunch reservations. The good news is these story elements are so tried and true (translation: stale) that even the simplest of readers will get it and enthusiastically pass it along to their boss, who still won't read it but will take credit for all the amusing gags once he sees the completed picture.''
246-->--Writer '''Creator/PaulDini''', [[http://kingofbreakfast.livejournal.com/72294.html describing cliches]] of animated features (mostly referring to the early 90's Creator/{{Disney}} features)
247
248->''Yes, in those days plays were literally ''melo''-dramas; dramas with musical accompaniment somewhat on the order of the Warner Bros. movie music of the day which drove Creator/BetteDavis wild... halfway up the stairs Bette stopped and turned to fix the director, Irving Rapper, with her famed steely gaze. "Now tell me, Irving, before I waste any more time on acting, who is going up these stairs to die, [[SorryILeftTheBGMOn me or Max Steiner?]]" Like most of the great actresses she hated the schmaltzy movie music that was added later by some director-editor in order to nudge — [[{{Anvilicious}} shove]] — the audience into sobs or laughter.''
249-->-- '''Creator/GoreVidal''' on the making of ''Film/DarkVictory'', ''Point to Point Navigation''
250
251->''Gotta love April Fools Day. Not that that's going to stop any of you from e-mailing me about this comic thinking it's real.''
252-->-- '''[[WordOfGod Duke]]''', regarding one strip of ''Webcomic/AnsemRetort''
253
254->"You know why my show is good? Because the network officials say you're not smart enough to get what I'm doing, and every day I fight for you. I tell them how smart you are. Turns out, I was wrong. You people are stupid."
255-->-- '''Creator/DaveChappelle''' after being drowned out at a stand-up show by the audience screaming "I'm Music/RickJames, bitch!"
256
257->"People aren't as stupid as you think, they're even stupider."
258-->-- '''Stig "Stikkan" Anderson''', former manager of Music/{{ABBA}}
259
260->"Their stupidity does not amaze me, it's when they're smart that amazes me. It's baffling whenever you find someone who's smart; incredible. Soon you'll have zoos for such things."
261-->-- '''Music/FrankZappa''', 1984 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpcvJiZUbzI interview]]
262
263->"I've already got your money, dude."
264-->-- '''Creator/CharlieSheen''' to a heckler, ''Torpedo of Truth'' comedy tour
265
266->"We had so many smart fans that bought into it hook, line and sinker...That's the beauty of it. Whenever anyone tells me they're a {{smart mark}}, I say, Yeah, but the key word there, still, is that you're a '''mark.'''
267-->-- '''Wrestling/ShaneDouglas''', ''Forever Hardcore: The Documentary''
268
269->''The main characters in ''Film/ReadyToRumble'', a mainstream movie about wrestlers that supposedly catered to wrestling fans, were portrayed as [[StrawFan the dumbest human beings walking the planet]]. Advertisers shied away from buying time on wrestling shows because they believed wrestling fans were dumber and poorer than the average buyer"''
270-->-- '''R. D. Reynolds''' and '''Bryan Alvarez''', ''Literature/TheDeathOfWCW''
271
272->''I write by the method created by those who sought the applause of commoners, since it is them who pay for these plays, it is fair to please them with foolish talk.''
273-->-- '''Creator/LopeDeVega''', ''Arte nuevo de hacer comedias''
274
275->''I was always told to write for the average reader in my newspaper life. The average reader, as they meant it, was some suburban white subscriber with two-point-whatever kids and three-point-whatever cars and a dog and a cat and lawn furniture. He knows nothing and he needs everything explained to him right away, so that exposition becomes this incredible, story-killing burden.''
276-->-- '''Creator/DavidSimon'''
277
278->[T]''here is no denying that if you think in terms of tired untutored minds with underdeveloped tastes needing an occasional escape through relaxation, you will have to admit that the best prescription is a well-mixed potpourri of popular entertainment. And that is exactly what is being contrived and will, I suspect, continue to be contrived for a long time yet.''
279-->--'''Creator/SatyajitRay''', on UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}}
280
281->''If somebody sends me a literate script do you know what I do with it? I throw it in the waste paper basket, that's what I do with it. It's no use making intelligent films. There aren't enough intelligent people to fill the cinemas''.
282-->--'''Creator/IrwinAllen'''
283[[/folder]]

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