Big deal Quote by David Krumholtz

I had done lots of theater and I really wanted to do screen work. I said to my agent, "Look, I really want to…

— Gwendoline Christie

My experience of test screenings is that you don't know what kind of mood people are going to be in, and sometimes the studios…

— Antoine Fuqua

Test audiences are notorious for getting kind of itchy when people talk too much, and you have to trust your instincts that they don't…

— Marti Noxon

I try to encourage actors to work harder off screen because that's where you find things.

— Denzel Washington

Interestingly, when you do films, sometimes you have conscious reasons, things that you were looking for, or stuff that you were trying to do.…

— Jodie Foster

I was doing a Broadway play, and I was really new to this business. The Broadway play was my first job, literally. The play…

— David Krumholtz

You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences.

— Rod Lurie

As an actor, you tend to just look at the script till you get to your stuff.

— Melanie Scrofano

As actors, we often look for the scene, big moments that say, 'This is why you have to do this role.'

— David Morse

I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.

— Anonymous

Different reactions while film test screening doesn't mean even the audience thinks ambiguity is a bad thing. But if you're asking them right away…

— Barry Levinson

I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which…

— Jonathan Miller