In music, which was my world before, you've got thousands and thousands of years of great ideas that have already been thought of. But the internet is basically 20 years old. So you can be way stupider and still have world-changing ideas.
I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am.
You really have to be careful with the clues you lay into the film - if they're too heavy-handed, or you've pandered to a slightly stupider audience, then you've spoiled it for the people who are even slightly smart.
I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.
Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy.
The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.
I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, and that's my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten stupider and stupider.
I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business - just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I'm an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you're being compromised.
There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.
I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider.
