Cutting Quote by Sidney Lumet

The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

— Harold Ramis

In any movie, there are a number of scenes that get cut in an effort to keep the film from running too long. Some…

— Robert B. Weide

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

There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

— Ben Stiller

When you cut a film, certain scenes fall away and don't fit into the shape of the movie.

— Wyck Godfrey

Looking back at all the films it just seems like one long film.

— Rupert Grint

I think movies are too long.

— Michael Moore

There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut.

— Ang Lee

In fact, sometimes when a short film is done well, you wish that it could be slightly longer.

— Sanam Saeed

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

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

— Frank Darabont

Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as…

— Wes Anderson