Screen time Quote by John Griesemer

Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as…

— Paul Auster

A book is maybe about 350 pages, and the prose allows for readers to get a glimpse into the internal lives of the characters.…

— Nicholas Sparks

“If every minute of time elapsed on the screen equals in length of time every other minute, and obviously it does, and if time…

— Dan Joseph Decker

If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of…

— Dino De Laurentiis

The bigger budget films only shoot about a page or two a day, so there's very specific amount of time spent on detail and…

— Dan Payne

I'm not a long movie person. I have a very short attention span. If you give me a 90-minute movie, that's perfect. When it…

— Courteney Cox

In a perfect world, I'd love to make 90-minute movies, but for me, a movie needs to be as long or short as it…

— Paul Feig

Well, usually, when you're doing a sitcom, you get a script and every word or for the most part, is written. So, you know,…

— Cheryl Hines

I find that most of my scripts have a lot more scenes than most films, so the average movie might have 100 scenes, my…

— Steven Zaillian

Sometimes on a big feature film it seems to take far, far longer to do things than it should.

— Nick Searcy

When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and…

— Channing Tatum

Films are a long process and the script is the first part.

— Kay Kay Menon