Budgets Quote by Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The attempt is that we want to get a couple of minutes under our belt, depending on how good the tests are and take…

— Todd McFarlane

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

With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited…

— Gus Van Sant

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

— Barry Levinson

This movie [Don Jon] played at Sundance and South by Southwest and Berlin. And it just played - well...by the time it played at…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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

They had an opening. You know, it was one of those deals. I auditioned and got it in '93.

— Mary Hart

At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It…

— Terry Gilliam

And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying…

— Jenna Elfman

I don't know how that budget would have been worked out, but that was the initial idea. Obviously, we couldn't have had a show…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

I'm not going to go to the local theater to spend $12... when I can get a screening copy of a film. I don't…

— Andre Leon Talley

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