John Badham Quotes

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

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.

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

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

I like films that are about two hours not more.

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.

Short films don't go too far.

If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them and is supposed to be funny, what you'll notice is that they don't laugh.

Every play should be 90 minutes. There would be so many more theatre-goers if plays were shorter.

I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi; something with very important subject matters.

Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.

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

I think movies are too long.

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.

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

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

What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.

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 attracted to short screenplays. Nobody really wants a film to be over two hours, or at least I don't.

The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your audience over two or three hours.

These 150-minute superhero films that Hollywood is making are so concerned with their length that each scene doesn't have the time it needs to make sense.

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

In fact, sometimes when a short film is done well, you wish that it could be slightly longer.

When we first started, everything was animated, everything was comedy, and there was really nothing that was longer than about two minutes, because that's all audiences would watch.