Around Quote by Christopher Guest

All my cuts are always about three hours, at the start, mainly because any scene in the movie that's 90 seconds, I probably shot…

— Judd Apatow

For my first movie, I think my first cut was like three hours, because when you first direct a movie, you want to keep…

— Alejandro Amenabar

Scenes change while shooting. Nowadays, while you're shooting the movie, you're cutting at the same time.

— Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr

You do need to edit yourself as you shoot because you have fewer options in a smaller movie. In other words, when I'm shooting…

— David Twohy

Whenever I'm not shooting, I'm in the editing room with my footage. While the crew is taking 15 minutes to an hour to set…

— Kevin Smith

My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.

— Mark Ruffalo

When I'm shooting, as much as writing, I see edited footage in my mind, so I work that way, and it's economical.

— William Monahan

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing

— Garry Marshall

Editing is everything. Cut until you can cut no more.

— Esther Freud

When I'm editing, I tend to cut, go back over it, cut, go back over it, cut, so by the time I'm done, even…

— Noah Baumbach

I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.

— M. Night Shyamalan

I think that anybody that wants to direct, particularly writers, should spend some time in an editing room, whether it's a film of theirs…

— Joe Dante