Lowered Standards Quotes

The fewer expectations you have, the better.

In New York I'd go to the movies three or four times a week. Here I've upped it to six or seven, mainly because I'm too lazy to do anything else. Fortunately, going to the movies seems to suddenly qualify as an intellectual accomplishment, on a par with reading a book or devoting time to serious thought. It's not that the movies have gotten any more strenuous, it's just that a lot of people are as lazy as I am, and together we've agreed to lower the bar.

We're getting dumbed down, taste-wise.

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.

I've got everything I had 20 years ago, except now it's all lower.

Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often.

[An audience conditioned by a lifetime of television-watching is so corrupted that] their standards have been systematically lowered over the years. These guys sit in front of their sets and the gamma rays eat the white cells of their brains out!

Alcohol does not make ugly people attractive. It makes it so you could care less that they're ugly.

I really don't go much by expectations.

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

Television will always err on the side of making something not quite as classy as it could be.