Action Quote by Andrei Tarkovsky

There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up…

— Mary Steenburgen

I don't believe moviegoers don't have patience. Screenwriters are told a scene can't be longer than three minutes, that you have to cut to…

— Tracy Letts

One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.

— William Mapother

Something like the alleyway scene, where it's like a mini one-act play and you run the whole 18 pages of it, it's so much…

— Dylan O'Brien

The wonderful thing about film is that you have something that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you have a concrete amount of…

— Lucy Liu

If the titles are treated in a straightforward way, nobody is really interested. The theory is that in those two or three minutes, you…

— Saul Bass

Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.

— Mara Wilson

With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.

— Taraji P. Henson

Sometimes on a big feature film it seems to take far, far longer to do things than it should.

— Nick Searcy

My father's films are often very slow for the modern audiences, which are used to a lot of editing. It's the audience that watches…

— Isabella Rossellini

Every film is faced with the enemy of time. Only so much story can fit into the 90-150 minutes of time that moviegoers are…

— Alex Gibney

To me it's not so much that the movies are slow-paced as much as they are about spending time building a relationship between the…

— Ti West