John Woo Quotes

In the old days, you cut out a scene that might've been a really great scene, and no one was ever going to see it ever again. Now, with DVD, you can obviously... there's a lot of possibilities for scenes that are good scenes.

The thing I realized about final cut is it's the power of the best cut. I didn't have final cut on 'Prisoners,' but what you saw is the best cut. 'Sicario' is a directors' cut. 'Arrival' is a directors' cut.

If you look at 'Blade Runner,' it's been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

A lot of kids only know 'E.T.' from the digitally-enhanced version.

I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of the book was devoted to these scenes and why they should have been in the movie.

I'm not a big fan of the George Lucas school of meddling and tinkering. That's a slippery slope.

I respect Srikanth garu, I worked as an assistant director for his film 'Radha Gopalam.'

My first cut that I showed the studio was probably 2hrs 20min.

I never liked the extended cut personally because I like...we spend a lot of time figuring out our final cut. We test and test and test it, whatnot. Having said that, there's one sequence we're adding back into the movie for the extended cut that is pretty amazing that I think people are going to love.

Definitely my favorite cut is the one that got put out. That's my favorite version of the film, the one that I put in theaters. That's my directors cut, there's no question about it.

I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.

I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be.

Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.

I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.

There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.

The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck.

I can't wait for them to convert old movies to 3D. I am 100% confident I want them to convert 'Terminator 2' to 3D more than I want anything in the world.

I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.

With Fever, the film was so made for the screen, and there's so much surround sound that was done for the film - enormous detail paid to that. I wasn't thinking video, because I didn't know how it was going to turn out.

With bad movies, I have this image in my head of the director and the editor in the editing room watching a scene that is not happening, looking at each other and saying, 'Put some music in there.'

There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.

Justin Lin has just been exceptional with what he does with that vehicular action.