Half Quote by Sam Esmail

I think you're sort of always waiting, wondering when the word "cut" is going to be said when you're doing a scene. Like you're…

— Ashton Kutcher

I don't call cut between the takes - it's my way to help the actor keep focused. As soon as you say 'cut' you…

— Michel Gondry

Sometimes I forget to say 'cut' because I am so lost in the performance.

— Michelle MacLaren

It's rare that you cut out something that is really good. You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn't respond, you cut…

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked…

— Bruce Beresford

I think that's my approach: If it feels right for a scene to be whole, to hold on without cutting for a long time,…

— David Mackenzie

What happens between action and cut for me is a blur, I go almost into a whiteout, and then I see the film and…

— Diane Lane

The normal cut in a theatrical film is anywhere from 3 to 6 seconds. That means thousands of images in a film over a…

— Godfrey Reggio

Once the director calls for action, we act; we stop when he says 'Cut.' It is sort of like meditation - unknowingly, you are…

— Mohanlal

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

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

When you cut from a long shot to a close shot, you're doing it for a reason, or if you let something stay in…

— David Lowery