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"I don't think a lot of really good films get seen"

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There is a quiet melancholy in Liv Tyler's line, and it lands because she refuses to dress it up as outrage. "I don't think" softens the claim just enough to feel honest rather than preachy, the way people talk when they are naming a truth they have learned by watching it happen. The hinge is "really good": not "independent", not "art", not "small", but good, full stop. She's poking at the myth that quality naturally rises, that the market is a neutral sorting machine.

The subtext is less about taste than about infrastructure. Good films don't "get seen" because seeing is no longer a simple matter of availability; it's a battle with distribution deals, marketing budgets, algorithmic recommendations, and the shrinking oxygen of theatrical runs. "Get seen" is passive for a reason: it implies gatekeeping without naming a villain, a system that fails by default rather than by conspiracy. That vagueness is strategic coming from a working actor who has to live inside that system.

Tyler's context matters. She's been both a glossy face of studio-era fame and a performer in smaller, mood-driven work. From that vantage point, the problem isn't that audiences are too dumb or that art is too pure. It's that attention has become the scarce resource, and "good" is often quiet: it doesn't shout in trailers, doesn't flatten into memes, doesn't arrive with a brand partnership. Her sentence is a modest lament with a sharp edge: in a culture that treats visibility as merit, invisibility becomes a kind of accidental censorship.

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Tyler, Liv. (2026, January 16). I don't think a lot of really good films get seen. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-think-a-lot-of-really-good-films-get-seen-119864/

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Tyler, Liv. "I don't think a lot of really good films get seen." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-think-a-lot-of-really-good-films-get-seen-119864/.

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"I don't think a lot of really good films get seen." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-think-a-lot-of-really-good-films-get-seen-119864/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Liv Tyler (born July 1, 1975) is a Actress from USA.

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