Believe Quote by Jason Reitman

I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.

— Barry Sonnenfeld

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'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned…

— Jay Roach

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

There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut.

— Ang Lee

Over-length is one of the things that most often results in the destruction of the movie in the cutting room.

— Sidney Lumet

In any movie, there are a number of scenes that get cut in an effort to keep the film from running too long. Some…

— Robert B. Weide

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

The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

— Harold Ramis

In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to…

— Colm Meaney

As actors, if the director doesn't cut, then you just keep going.

— Fala Chen

We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue…

— Bille August