Movie Length Quotes

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 don't really watch too many movies. I don't have the patience usually to watch one, one and a half or two hours in a row.

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

If I'm seeing a three-hour foreign film, I don't want to watch it in a bed.

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

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.

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

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.

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 love the 'Dark Knight' movies, and 'Dark Knight' and the last one are well over two hours, and I could've sat there for three and a half hours, so if it's good you have some leeway.

I'm gonna direct, like, a real movie. At least an hour and some change.

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 novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

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

If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end. You either make a five hour movie or you leave out stuff that should be in there.

You have to realize, in real life, the gun battle lasted for over three hours, and the movie's only two hours long. My hat's off to all those stuntmen who laid it on the line and hurt themselves doing what they had to do to get that done because in real life, we all died, and the only reason I'm sitting here is because of modern medicine.

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

I tried to watch 'Inception,' but I fell asleep.

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

First of all, the first cut of the movie was like three and a half hours and I walked away going, 'Wow, I know there's like twenty minutes that I can cut - ' when I first saw it 'But I don't know after that.' The first time I put up then in front of people I was like, 'Oh, my God, I can take that out and that out and that out.'

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

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

When you are working on a movie, you have to ensure that the journey of characters ends in two hours.

I think that a movie of a TV show is really tricky, and I don't know if it's ever really been done well. Because it's really hard if you have a 22-minute show, especially something like 'Party Down,' where it's all contained at the party.

I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.