Audience Quote by Stephen Daldry

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

— Barry Levinson

I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.

— Andrew Dominik

I think test screenings with an audience are useful because they have no dog in the fight, they just say how they feel.

— Brian Helgeland

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

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

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

It's a big part of what we do - we test our movies extensively. I'm always there myself. It's sometimes difficult to sit through,…

— Bobby Farrelly

Those of us who make films try to make something that we're feeling and that we would like. Then we just hope an audience…

— Jim Jarmusch

I think testing films are a great tool. And I think showing them to people that you value their opinion is important, but once…

— Bradley Cooper

Films that score very high with test audiences generally tend to not be so great. But, there's a lot of money involved in making…

— Andrew Dominik

I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over…

— Helen McCrory

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