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You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

Your audience is a lot smarter than you realize.

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

I have always accepted intelligence was an honorable profession. We are all mindful of the need to comply with our moral values and the law.

So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

I'd never bought the idea that you don't lose money by underestimating the intelligence of the audience. Although perhaps I should add that I've never really made that much money.

Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.