Cinema Quote by Steven Spielberg

For my first movie, I think my first cut was like three hours, because when you first direct a movie, you want to keep…

— Alejandro Amenabar

I don't believe in doing thousands of cuts, then giving it to the editor to make the movie. 'Dump-truck directing' is my reference to…

— Gordon Willis

I am not cut out to do too many films at a time.

— Bobby Deol

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

Interestingly, my first director's cut was an hour and forty-one minutes. Then, the studio actually wanted to add more to the story, so we…

— Kim Jee-woon

All my cuts are always about three hours, at the start, mainly because any scene in the movie that's 90 seconds, I probably shot…

— Judd Apatow

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

— Stephen Fry

Three-quarters of directors waste four hours on a shot that requires five minutes of actual directing. I prefer to have five minutes' work for…

— Jean-Luc Godard

My directing style is long takes. The longer take I can do, the more I can think of not doing it in cuts, the…

— M. Night Shyamalan

There's no real rules about what you do [while directing]; it's just you just use your instincts as to the pacing of a film…

— Peter Jackson

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

With film, so much is in the director's hands. Once something is cut together - unless you're in the editing room - you don't…

— Julia Stiles