Sometimes I go to a test screening and look at the audience in line, and I start to go, "Okay, I bet this is going to work, and this isn't going to work." It's weird, but just going and facing the music and putting it out before a crowd, even before it starts playing, that exercise of putting it up on a screen for people makes you realize things even before it starts rolling. It's really weird. I've heard other people say that, too.
Mike JudgeThen there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis.
Mike JudgeThere was a time when cell animation was poison, but after Family Guy now everyone wants it.
Mike JudgeOne thing I always heard from the begining when I talked about this being a movie - was that the rule is that animated movies don't work unless they're Disney movies for kids. Unless they're family movies.
Mike JudgeYou look at material a different way when your ass is on the line financially for it. You want to know where the big laughs are, and how we're going to sell this.
Mike JudgeIt kind of hit me at some point during the process that most people in the film business - not just the executives, the people who make them, too - tend to come from pretty upper-class backgrounds. If they go work a job, it's to have that experience, that sort of thing. After they graduate college, they have time to go visit Europe and take some time off and get their heads together. That kind of thing, I sure didn't have.
Mike Judge