Movie Previews Quotes

I saw 'Boogie Nights' more times before the movie came out than any other movie I had ever seen.

When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

I'm a trailer junkie. I love watching movie trailers as soon as they go up.

I didn't even try watching 'Pink' when I got the part in Tamil, although I've seen some rushes.

I always like teaser trailers because they don't give too much away, you know? They give just a flavor of what the thing is.

As a filmmaker, I wish we didn't have to do trailers at all, quite honestly. I wish we didn't have to do posters. I wish didn't have to give anything away. I wish people could just come in the movie blind. But as an audience member, I respect that you have to tell an audience that this is worth your time.

From now on, any flick I'm ever involved with, I conduct critics screenings thusly: 'You wanna see it early to review it? Fine: pay like you would if you saw it next week.'

I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.

I am honored to be one of this year's Urbanworld ambassadors for the festival's 20th anniversary, joining my friend David Oyelowo. I have always had a special relationship with Urbanworld, back to my days as a festival publicist to previewing my earlier films and now as an ambassador.

It's unfortunate that it's not realistic that you can get people to come to a movie theater not knowing anything about the movie.

I've seen Animal House two and a half times now at sneak previews with a real audience, and the reaction was great.

I don't watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh.

You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.

I miss a lot of things; that's the price one pays for stardom. I miss standing in queues, buying tickets, and watching films first day first show. It isn't the same going to preview theatres or multiplexes and trying to stay incognito.

From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.

When I first started in the business, it was hardly ever done. But today, it almost feels like studios go out and preview movies knowing full well that they're going to use the information they get to go back and reshoot.

I absolutely loathe adverts. I won't go into the cinema until 20 minutes after the film is due to start because there are so many.

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