I've had a lot of movies that didn't get great numbers on test screening, but a lot of times the film was… — 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
I think we are seeing a radical shift in the business in general. The studios are making much more of the real… — 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
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
Even back in the '90s, I shot certain things on something that wasn't digital then, but it was on VHS with a… — 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
I'm emotionally invested in every movie that I do, period, because you've got to make that commitment. You're spending a year, 18… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
There was a time when I said, "I'm going to go do a television thing," after doing all these theatrical films, and… — 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 Image
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 Image
You don't always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion. — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen. — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
