Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

My movies are pretty tight and they're pretty well-paced. I'm not one to make long movies. I don't dwell on stuff.

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.

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 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.

And to be fair, most documentaries are half an hour too long, anyway. Let's not kid ourselves. Most movies are an hour too long. I will say that the internet has changed everything in terms of distribution and because of iTunes and other outlets like that, length is no longer something you really think about, in my opinion. It's irrelevant.

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

I get nervous when a picture goes beyond two hours.

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

I personally can watch an eight-hour documentary on Woody Allen because I'm fascinated by him. But, an audience can't really sit through more than two and a half hours on any movie. It doesn't matter if Marlon Brando came back from the dead. It's just impossible.

Some people would find just the rhythm of my films alone to be a nightmare; they'd probably just fall asleep because they want something quicker. Other people fall into it and it works for them like a dream.

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

My very first news director said to me that it's better to be hated than to have viewers be neutral.

I didn't want people to sit there and watch 10 minutes of film, and all they write about is 48 frames.

With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.

I wasn't really using Twitter before 'Pan Am.' It was a good way to promote the show and be with the viewers on Sunday and be available to them and take questions.

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

I like four-hour movies.

My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.

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

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

For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving.

When I set out to make 'Bourne Identity,' my main goal for the franchise was to create something where it feels like you're in the action. You're not just passively watching it from far away. That's something that I have constantly aspired to do - even in 'Swingers,' to feel like you're Jon Favreau; you're not just watching him.

If people aren't dancing, we're not doing our job.

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