It's actually smarter to make a dumb film.
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You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.
Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!
What frustrates me a lot about some aspects of filmmaking is people thinking everyone is really dumb and that we have to make everything really obvious.
A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.
You really have to be careful with the clues you lay into the film - if they're too heavy-handed, or you've pandered to a slightly stupider audience, then you've spoiled it for the people who are even slightly smart.
Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.
You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.
I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
One of my favorite films is 'Dumb and Dumber.'
I don't believe making a movie accessible means you have to dumb them down.