Adapting Quote by Francis Lawrence

Short cuts make for long delays.

— JRR Tolkien

Short cuts make long delays.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Interestingly, my first director's cut was an hour and forty-one minutes. Then, the studio actually wanted to add more to the story, so we…

— Kim Jee-woon

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

— Mark Ruffalo

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

The first cut I do is usually between five and 10 minutes shorter then the cut that we release. Anything I think isn't working…

— Barry Sonnenfeld

Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.

— Kurt Loder

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

I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.

— Kevin Spacey

Damn, my first cut that I showed to distributors was probably about two hours and 20 minutes, even though my contract said two hours.…

— David Twohy

Whenever you're working on a film or TV set, the hours are very, very long.

— Jon Tenney