Editing Quote by Daniel Stamm

We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to…

— Joshua Leonard

You have to spend four hours filming a 30-minute program. That seems mental to me.

— John Bishop

So anything that's not absolutely needed, we would cut it [footage] out, which would make me very insecure; everything has to work, and it's…

— Ang Lee

Given the time-based relationship to making a movie, it's often not efficient to spend copious amounts of time filming and waiting for meaning and…

— RaMell Ross

I also think that filmmakers understand, we don't have to make twenty movies a year, we make four to six.

— Thomas Tull

After making a movie, maybe you weren't able to shoot many of your ideas, because a movie is only 1 1/2 or two hours…

— Andrew Lau

If a film is good, it will do well irrespective of the timing. Period.

— Uday Chopra

We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.

— Nick Park

With every project I start out on, there's no footage. It's always a big slog to find the footage.

— Alex Gibney

It takes forever to make a film. It's a gargantuan thing of untold effort.

— Francesca Gregorini

I've never done a movie that's shot more than 40 days because I just don't do those kinds of films.

— Kevin Spacey

I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or…

— Parker Posey