Cinema Quote by Richard Donner

I always thought the editor should cut the film and so I'll come in and look at the movie. Just because that's the only…

— Peter Weir

Fundamentally, I always find that most of the films that I've put out are essentially the director's cut. Part of the process with a…

— Ridley Scott

As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.

— Guillermo del Toro

As a writer, you have to be willing to kill your darlings, and I'm a writer first. As a director, I've got no problem…

— David Ayer

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

In editing, you really face what the movie is. When you shoot it, you have this illusion that you're making the masterpieces that you're…

— Daniel Espinosa

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

My problem has been with purely digital films. I feel the danger there is that the kind of short-cuts you end up having to…

— Rick Heinrichs

Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early…

— Satyajit Ray

First time films are hard. Even with some of the greatest directors, you look back at their first film, and you are just going,…

— Mike Birbiglia

I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned…

— Jay Roach

In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to…

— Colm Meaney