Arcs Quote by Steven Knight

I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.

— Vince McMahon

The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.

— Ted Shackelford

Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as…

— Paul Auster

You dream to be able to have a storyline that spans hours and hours and hours but in reality, half of the people who…

— Sophie Turner

But in a TV series, you can really take a novelistic approach and explore characters that you wouldn't ordinarily see, in a level of…

— Lisa Joy

In a film you only get two hours to do this big arc and so you have to pick and choose your moments carefully,…

— Chris Zylka

Storytelling takes many forms, and even feature-length storytelling is often 90 minutes or two hours. There's nothing stopping us from trying to do that…

— Nancy Dubuc

Directing on a 90-day schedule, whether for a TV series or a feature film, it's crazy; it's a marathon.

— Jean-Marc Vallee

In a perfect world, I'd love to make 90-minute movies, but for me, a movie needs to be as long or short as it…

— Paul Feig

There's something inherently more appealing about the idea that you could reveal and tell stories about characters over the course of a TV season…

— Michael Chabon

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.

— Richard Russo

It takes a lot out of you to do a one-hour episodic lead of a show. I don't think actors realize that when they…

— Jane Krakowski