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. Today there is a certain
fear, or horror, that the audience won't understand. They underestimate
the audience very often. And that is because, when you look at the
box-office to see that total braindead films make lots of money, then
that's what the cash machine is telling you to do. In other words: More
braindead, more money!