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I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half…

— Alice Lowe

I try to naturally keep things to a manageable storytelling length, which is about two hours, so you try to cut out anything extraneous.

— Martin McDonagh

On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories…

— Lurlene McDaniel

Every time I'm in editing, there's always a moment where you think, "Maybe this should be six or seven minutes shorter, but I'm losing…

— Judd Apatow

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

I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

— Frank Darabont

“3-minute story The 3-minute story is exactly that: if you had only three minutes to tell your audience what they need to know, what…

— Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

Some people ask why we don't just wait until we have the whole story before posting. The fact is that we sometimes can't get…

— Michael Arrington

I'm grateful when stories come in a rush, although I keep an eye on them afterwards, to see whether they hold together. It's harder…

— Kelly Link

I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.

— Steve Earle

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

— Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes that happens when people don't really know how long they're going to have to stretch their story out for.

— Busy Philipps