#sophistication

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There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.


Ang Lee


#establishment #fast #filmmaking #happen #level

The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.


Rand Beers


#crime #dangerous #expansion #millennium #most

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.


Christopher Hampton


#decadence #feeble #i #rather #sophistication

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.


Iain Glen


#class #even #face #her #i

People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world. As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance.


Bill Watterson


#modern-art #sophistication #superiority #art

He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#humor #self-importance #significance #sophistication #beauty

The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.


Nassim Nicholas Taleb


#intellectual-sophistication #internet #irony #nerd #nerdery

Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.


Bill Budge


#everything #getting #go #little #more

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.


David Zucker


#any #attract #audience #aware #been

In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.


Oliver Joseph Lodge


#becomes #cases #communicator #demonstration #entranced