A Quote by Henry Mancini

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

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Henry Mancini
American - Composer
April 16, 1924 - June 14, 1994

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.

Jenna Elfman

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

Julie Andrews

The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.

Elsa Barker

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 like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art, but I like art that doesn't take itself too seriously.

Kathleen Hanna

Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.

Juliette Binoche

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Soren Kierkegaard

Even if it's just a little thing, something like a song, there's still that sort of common language, that common denominator that we can all relate to.

Jonas Carpignano

What the Americans have done is refuse to back down. They've refused to make the cheapest, lowest common denominator forms of entertainment for TV and instead have championed television drama as an important part of our culture.

Douglas Henshall

The problem with American cinema is that because you're making films with huge amounts of money you need to hit the lowest common denominator in order to make it back and so therefore you're not allowed to play with moral ambiguities or ask questions.

David MacKenzie

The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny.

Brian Tracy

Now the denominator ... why don't they just call it the bottom number? The denominator ... that sounds like a Schwarzenegger movie doesn't it? [impersonating Arnold Schwarzenegger] I am the Denominator. I'll give your leg a compound fraction!