Break Quote by James McAvoy

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

— Alan Ball

I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into…

— Tom Perrotta

I always believe that editing is the kind of thing where you want to cut into a scene a little bit after it starts…

— David Nutter

Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my…

— David Twohy

We start with a rehearsal where the actors kind of bring what they think should be in the scene. But we film everything, and…

— Lars von Trier

I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie,…

— Steven Spielberg

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

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half…

— Tom Stoppard

It's rare that you cut out something that is really good. You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn't respond, you cut…

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

As a director, when you cut scenes from a movie, you do it with the idea that it is making the story move forward…

— Catherine Hardwicke

I don't believe in doing thousands of cuts, then giving it to the editor to make the movie. 'Dump-truck directing' is my reference to…

— Gordon Willis

As a writer, you have to be willing to kill your darlings, and I'm a writer first. As a director, I've got no problem…

— David Ayer