The great Hollywood film makers are intelligent and scholarly.
I might agree if you said "were", when Hollywood believed in the American Dream. Dreamworks, Disney, Miramax heads are all rabid, liberal Democrats, hardly suggesting intelligence or scholorship.
Well studio heads aren't film makers. The likes of Eisner, Weinstien and their ilk are philistines of the highest order. I meant directors (Coppola, Spielberg, Scorsese) the latter perhaps being the country's foremost film scholar.