Audience Quote by Gus Van Sant

I think the purpose of test screenings is different for the studio and for the filmmaker. For the studio, I think they want to…

— Michel Gondry

I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it's getting.

— Barry Levinson

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

— Rod Lurie

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

Ideally, I'd prefer never having to be in a test-screening environment. Some famous director said "The group is smart, the individuals are stupid," about…

— Tamara Jenkins

“Tests were fine and good. Tests were important. Tests were like rehearsal. But all that really matters is what happens when the audience is…

— Patrick Rothfuss

You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences. With both comedies and movies that are intense, you need to calibrate…

— Rod Lurie

There are an enormous amount of techniques I wanted to beta test in television. You can't take those risks on a $100 million movie.

— Dean Devlin

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

Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing.

— Simon Cowell

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

The play I was doing [on a Broadway ], I was playing an obnoxious, outspoken kid, so [the director James Lapine ] saw me…

— David Krumholtz