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What you cut out becomes part of the story you tell.

— Joss Whedon

My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.

— Mark Ruffalo

I was actually cut out of 'L.A. Story'... and rightfully so.

— Scott Bakula

I never start a section of the story without knowing how it will end. I also consciously try to shape the story as though…

— Dave Barry

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

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

A Million Little Pieces. I wanted the stories in the book to ebb and flow, to have dramatic arcs, to have the tension that…

— James Frey

Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a…

— Roger Michell

The story was the important thing and little changes here and there were really part of the story. There were even stories about the…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

— Ernest Hemingway

Some stories feel like they need more time or less time to tell. To not obsessively have to trim or add that final two…

— Judd Apatow

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