I Got A Chance To Work With

You Do Understand That You Can't Force The Situation, But In Terms Of How You Edit, You Can Define That To Take The Audience Along, Whether It Be A Storyline Or A Character Moment That We Can Play Out. The More Experience You've Had, The More Beneficial It Is, Period.

I Always Think That There Is The Good And The Bad Of It All.

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 To Start Checking Things Off, They Don't Know What To Do. I Think At Their Best, It Applies To When The Audience Knows What It Is. Then, When They Say, "oh, Well, I Thought It Was Too Boring In Blah-blah-blah Part," Then You Better Pay Attention To It. It's Like Going For The Hamburger. Better Be The Good Hamburger I Went For.

I Think Certain Movies Work And That Is Part Of The Magic Of It All. We Can't Truly Define Why Something Succeeds.

Rain Man Certainly Didn't Test Really Well. If You Look At It Carefully, You Have A Disease Autism They Didn't Understand Back Then, They Didn't Know In The Test Audience Whether It's Okay To Laugh Or Not Laugh, Because It's A Film That's Done In A Way Where, "well, Maybe I'm Not Supposed To Laugh." At The End Of The Film, Dustin Hoffman Gets On The Train And Doesn't Even Acknowledge His Brother. Not Even A Glance, Nothing. That's Why The Studio Said, "can't You Just Have Him Look At Tom Cruise At The End Of The Film?"