Being Quote by Peter Jackson

I never liked the extended cut personally because I like...we spend a lot of time figuring out our final cut. We test and test…

— Nicholas Stoller

Usually you always see first cut is an extended version, because it's basically everything you shot, and you have that version and then you…

— Fede Alvarez

The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut…

— Kenneth Branagh

It always surprises me when I see the director's versions of films released separately, long after the film's theatrical run.

— Sonia Braga

Over-length is one of the things that most often results in the destruction of the movie in the cutting room.

— Sidney Lumet

I don't believe in director's cuts where you make things longer. The coolest thing was when the Coen brothers did a director's cut of…

— Jason Reitman

I'm a huge fan of director's cuts or reassemblies if they're good, but I remember being really excited about the restored version of Apocalypse…

— William Monahan

The only reason for using another cut is to improve the scene.

— Edward Dmytryk

Obviously, I don't make an entire edition all at once, so the studio often goes back to produce editions, but that's a bit different.…

— Patricia Piccinini

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

But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this:…

— Griffin Dunne

The smaller films just take a longer period of time to build their fan base because people don't see them as soon as they…

— Stanley Tucci