Later, Buscemi told me he sometimes did that, liked to test directors out a bit.
Like most studios, Disney's custom was to test directors' cuts of movies in front of audiences, so it would be possible to make changes, and develop a marketing campaign, based on their reactions.
Graves became dismissive of the radiation risks from nuclear testing while serving as test director for the Nevada Test Site shots during the 1950s.
His colleague, test director Kenneth Bainbridge less poetically but no less accurately remarked: "Now we are all sons of bitches".
"I'd like to welcome you aboard, but tonight's not our night," Steve Altemus, the test director for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, told Endeavour's commander, Capt.
After reviewing a lot of film, engineers had identified about a half-dozen shuttle launchings with similar bolt problems, said Steve Altemus, the test director.
At a news conference Monday, a shuttle test director, Steven J. Payne, said that a shortened mission would eliminate the fifth of five spacewalks and that at present the choice would be to delay the launching to July 11 when a full mission could be flown.
"There are a variety of ways to consider the costs of a train," said the test director, Hiroshi Suruga, who shifted uncomfortably as a reporter sought to change the subject back to nitty-gritty questions of development spending and operating costs and away from magnetic levitation.
At the weather briefing, Nasa's test director, Jeff Spaulding, said: "Our teams here and really all around the world have been working extremely hard for quite awhile on this particular mission to make sure the vehicle and the payload are ready for hopefully a magnificent launch on Friday".
These are the cars of "dreams and desires, not needs," said Jake Fisher, automotive test director of Consumer Reports.
"The latest Accord redesign was a huge improvement, and the most striking change was in fuel economy," said Jake Fisher, automotive test director for Consumer Reports.
