America Quote by Mira Nair

I've never made a film where I don't have final cut. And I can't imagine doing that. That just seems like it would be…

— Kelly Reichardt

I would rather not make a film than make one where I don't have final cut.

— David Lynch

We even did a re-imagining of 'Spider-Man' that James Franco starred in that didn't make it into 'This Is The End'. That didn't make…

— Craig Robinson

There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

— Abel Ferrara

If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come…

— Gus Van Sant

If a producer goes to the censor at the last minute, just before the film releases, then he often settles with cuts because he…

— Vikram Bhatt

I have been very lucky to have final cut in all my films; everything that is wrong in them is my fault.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.

— M. Night Shyamalan

Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.

— Louis Leterrier

Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that.

— David Fincher

I can imagine [the government] trying to tell Steven Spielberg 'We need 50 different cuts of your movie for each state.' It will screw…

— John Riccitiello

As you go through history, I didn't think it was going to get quite this close. So it's just one of those recurring things.…

— George Lucas