A Quote by Edgar Wright

The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.

Edgar Wright

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Edgar Wright
English - Director
Born: April 18, 1974

If you take a look at education, the kids that get good grades are said to humiliate those who don't. And what, then, do we do? Slow them down. We put obstacles in their way. We do not devise public education systems that are designed to deal with their superior learning ability. We retard it so that they don't learn any more, any faster than the lowest common denominator - and that really is the nub of it. The Democrats' equality and sameness is all going to be defined by the lowest common denominator.

Rush Limbaugh

The lowest common denominator of the universe is both low and common.

R. A. Lafferty

I don't connect accessibility with lowest common denominator.

Patricia Piccinini

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.

Jim DeMint

A lot of films seem to go to the lowest common denominator.

Julie Andrews

Ideally, I'd prefer never having to be in a test-screening environment. Some famous director said "The group is smart, the individuals are stupid," about the experience of a test screening.

Tamara Jenkins

I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.

Spike Lee

Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?

Randall Jarrell

Email has the virtue - sounds like a bad thing, but it's the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol. Everyone can have it. It can cross organizational boundaries. No one owns it. It's not some particular company's platform.

Stewart Butterfield

We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.

Charles Dance

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Jimmy Carter

Writing for TV or films isn't great art. You have to have a common denominator. It's up to the composer to make that common denominator memorable.

Henry Mancini

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.