The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.
Paul FeigWhat you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do.
Paul FeigI'm the biggest proponent of test screenings now. There's two ways to face test screenings. For dramas, I don't know if I would rely on them as much, although I still think you need them, because you're making a movie for an audience at the end of the day. But with comedy... You could go through a script or anything I ever worked on, where you go, "This is hilarious," and you put it in front of people and you get nothing. And then the other side of it, is something you're like, "I think this is really stupid," and it gets a giant laugh.
Paul Feig