It's always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie. — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it's getting. — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
I don't know that you can do an absurdist film and just have everybody embrace it in terms of filling out cards.… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
You do understand that you can't force the situation, but in terms of how you edit, you can define that to take… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
If you test Iron Man and that audience doesn't respond well, you can be damn sure that there is something wrong with… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
Different reactions while film test screening doesn't mean even the audience thinks ambiguity is a bad thing. But if you're asking them… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
Rain Man certainly didn't test really well. If you look at it carefully, you have a disease autism they didn't understand back… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin kept talking and talking, and the more she talks, the less compelling she can be. People say, "She's a very… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments… — Barry Levinson Copy Share
Now, a lot of people didn't know him at all - it went through feeder funds, so they wouldn't even have known anything about… — Barry Levinson Copy Share
You don't always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion. — Barry Levinson Copy Share
I'm interested in the relationships of people. I'm interested in the darker moments within us. All those aspects of human behavior, I'm fascinated by.… — Barry Levinson Copy Share
I've had a lot of movies that didn't get great numbers on test screening, but a lot of times the film was able to… — Barry Levinson Copy Share
I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can't truly define why something succeeds. — Barry Levinson Copy Share
Creative differences are legendary in this movie business, so we're really not exploring the creative-difference aspect as opposed to the money aspect, or the… — Barry Levinson Copy Share
Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make… — Barry Levinson Copy Share
I play around with human things, human relationships and that, and allow that kind of talk to work in that way, on that level. — Barry Levinson Copy Share
You have to do a version of somebody that's the essence of Paterno. I think that's what Al is so great at. You have… — Barry Levinson Copy Share
How do I make the son, daughter, wife of Paterno interesting? Then you just have to start seeing people. — Barry Levinson Copy Share
Studios just sometimes make decisions on their own that you're always flabbergasted by. It just happens that way for whatever reason - not even… — Barry Levinson Copy Share
We excuse movies like 'Independence Day' that really lack logic and say, 'It doesn't make any sense, but it's a ride.' I thought a… — Barry Levinson Copy Share
