“All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.” IfsWantKindMeanAudienceLaughingComedyDirectorsTestsLoudScreening Author:Todd Solondz
“What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?” IfsAudienceTestsWhat IfJuliet Author:Brendan Fraser
“I love test screenings. Some directors don't, I know. But I love it. I think it's because I come from the theatre and in the theatre, previews are where you really have to listen to the audience and really feel how they're responding. I found our test screenings incredibly useful.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsFoundAudienceDirectorsTestsTheatreRespondingScreeningPreviewTheatre Directors Author:Stephen Daldry
“To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be elementary, simple. Good and evil, the antagonists of all great drama in some guise, must be believably personalized. The moral ideals common to all humanity must be upheld. The victories must not be too easy. Strife to test valor is still and will always be the basic ingredient of the animated tale, as of all screen entertainments.” StillsAgeHumanityEvilEasySimpleCommonMoralAudienceVictoryDramaIdealsTestsEntertainmentMythScreensTalesFairyGood And EvilTreatmentIngredientsLegendsFairy TaleStrifeAnimatedValorGuiseAntagonistPersonalized Author:Walt Disney
“In pulp fiction it is a rigid convention that the hero's shoulders and the heroine's balcon constantly threaten to burst their bonds, a possibility which keeps the audience in a state of tense expectancy. Unfortunately for the fans, however, recent tests reveal that the wisp of chiffon which stands between the publisher and the postal laws has the tensile strength of drop-forged steel.” StatesLawFictionAudienceFansPossibilityHeroTestsShouldersConventionsSteelPublishersTenseHeroinesForgedPulpExpectancyWisps Author:S. J. Perelman
“The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.” StatesProcessUnitedDealsUnited StatesAudienceTestsFilmmaking Author:Brendan Fraser
“I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.” ThinkingAudienceTestsStrangerScreening Author:Andrew Dominik
“I don't know what's funny and what's not so I test out all of my material in front of audiences.” KnowsAudienceFrontsMaterialsTests Author:Daniel Tosh
“I hear actresses talking about this all the time - this idea that you sit in meetings and the studio says, "Well, you can't do that because the audience won't like that. They won't root for you. It's not sympathetic." I think that we've been served this one dish for so long that we believe that it's all that audiences want, but when we test them or throw something out there that has some truth to it, they seem to always respond.” ThinkingWantBelieveWellsLongIdeasSeemsTalkingAudienceRootsTestsMeetingsStudiosActressesDishesSympathetic Author:Kristen Stewart
“I test the movies a lot, and if the audience says they love the movie, we know we're on the right track. And if they tell me they hate it, I try to figure out what I've done wrong. But every time out, the audience wants me to go deeper, they want to know more about the characters, and they don't want these movies to be shallow. So they really urge me to tell them a complicated story, and then when I do so, they're thrilled” IfsKnowsWantTryingDoneCharacterStoriesHateAudienceFiguresTestsTrackDeeperComplicatedUrgesWant MeShallowRight Track Author:Judd Apatow
“My kids were always my test audience. I'd take home the dailies and show them what we'd been filming that day.” ShowsHomeKidsAudienceTests Author:James Bobin
“I think test screenings with an audience are useful because they have no dog in the fight, they just say how they feel.” ThinkingFeelsFightingAudienceDogTestsScreening Author:Brian Helgeland