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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?"

Some Actors Are Supposed To Be Very Difficult, But I've Not Found That To Be The Situation.

I Think Test Screening Works At Its Best When The Audience Knows What It's Getting.

Creative Differences Are Legendary In This Movie Business, So We're Really Not Exploring The Creative-difference Aspect As Opposed To The Money Aspect, Or The Fact That Something Can Come Up In A Movie And Literally Put The Whole Movie On The Line, And This Is Where Producers Have To Earn Their Keep.

The Interesting Thing About Movies, It's Not Always - Y'know, You Have To Have Structure Etc And All Those Things, But An Audience Responds, In Many Ways, We Walk Away And Certain Things Stay In Our Heads That Are Memorable.