Ethan Hawke Quotes

There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes.

I like four-hour movies.

I just think a lot of movies are too long. I want to know how to make my movie as tight as possible.

The worst thing for people to say about your movies is, "Yeah, it was pretty good, but it was too damn long.".

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

Short films don't go too far.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

I don't believe in director's cuts where you make things longer. The coolest thing was when the Coen brothers did a director's cut of 'Blood Simple,' and they made it shorter.

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

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 don't like extremely long movies. I tend to get a bit impatient. There are definitely exceptions, like 'Lawrence of Arabia,' but for the most part, I feel that movies should usually be shorter and not longer.

I think movies are too long.

Nothing is cut while I'm shooting. I edit between nine months and a year, and usually have around 80 hours of footage I have to get down to an 82-minute movie.

I've learned that I really want to shoot short films on a short schedule. There can be very good films that run 110 minutes, but 90 minutes is beautiful.

You have to find the movie in the editing room, and it can't be four hours; it has to be two hours.

I'm not a great fan of very short films.

In Tamil, three-hour films are normal.

I'd love most of the movies I make to be four hours long.

Over-length is one of the things that most often results in the destruction of the movie in the cutting room.

I'm not a long movie person. I have a very short attention span. If you give me a 90-minute movie, that's perfect. When it gets to be two hours, that's a little bit too long for me.

I do agree you can't just make movies three hours long for no apparent reason. For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.