Cutting Quote by Mark Ruffalo

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

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

My first cut that I showed the studio was probably 2hrs 20min.

— Joe Wright

The first cut I do is usually between five and 10 minutes shorter then the cut that we release. Anything I think isn't working…

— Barry Sonnenfeld

All my cuts are always about three hours, at the start, mainly because any scene in the movie that's 90 seconds, I probably shot…

— Judd Apatow

Damn, my first cut that I showed to distributors was probably about two hours and 20 minutes, even though my contract said two hours.…

— David Twohy

Editing is everything. Cut until you can cut no more.

— Esther Freud

Nothing is cut while I'm shooting. I edit between nine months and a year, and usually have around 80 hours of footage I have…

— Christopher Guest

My directing style is long takes. The longer take I can do, the more I can think of not doing it in cuts, the…

— M. Night Shyamalan

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 started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

— Bill Joy

I really am a strong believer that with editing, it should take a long time. Even you yourself are not capable of making the…

— Shirin Neshat