Giving Quote by Manuel Puig

What I like about films is that a story wraps up in three hours while on TV that is not the case.

— Kiku Sharda

That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you…

— Aaron Paul

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

To be home for story time is brilliant. Even if after 14 hours of filming you're exhausted and just want to fall into bed.

— Kris Marshall

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 two-hour movie tends to be a plot-delivery device; you tend to have to introduce all the characters, say what the goal is, and…

— Noah Hawley

I've gotten used to spending more time with heavily narrative stories.

— Joshuah Bearman

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.

— Wallace Shawn

I used to go over to my friend's house and we'd watch VCR tapes, three of them a day, and I was like, "I…

— Michelle Rodriguez

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

At the end of the day, filmmaking is all about telling stories, and I'm just doing my part.

— Ishaan Khatter

When you are dealing with approximately two-plus hours every few years to do a story, you don't have the luxury of having excessive screen…

— Michael Uslan