“I came home in the afternoon to sleep, and there was this e-mail from Comedy Central saying they were interested in having me be part of this new show called 'Jump Cuts'! So I called them right away, and the producer started laughing and said, 'We sent that e-mail one minute ago - you're so fast!” SaidShowsHomeSleepLaughingComedyCuttingMinutesProducersAfternoonMailOne Minute Author:Lev Yilmaz
“I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.” CuttingMinutesDirectorsVersionsConsistent Author:M. Night Shyamalan
“The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on each side. So you had a strict boundary, and that was something I'd grown up with as well. Also, you were able to have different moods on each side, which was nice.” IfsWellsDifferentAbleWantedSidesNiceCuttingMinutesMoodBoundariesGreat ThingsDecentStrictMaxVinylDifferent Moods Author:Kate Bush
“It used to take years to become a junkie. But crack cut that down to 37 minutes.” WorldYearsUsedCuttingModernMinutesCracksJunkie Author:Chris Rock
“When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.” SoundRoomsFiveCuttingMinutesAddFinishedSteadyFive Minutes Author:Fay Wray
“First of all, the first cut of the movie was like three and a half hours and I walked away going, 'Wow, I know there's like twenty minutes that I can cut - ' when I first saw it 'But I don't know after that.' The first time I put up then in front of people I was like, 'Oh, my God, I can take that out and that out and that out.'” PeopleKnowsFirstsI CanThreeHoursHalfSawsComedyCuttingMinutesFrontsFirst TimeTwentiesWowHalf Hours Author:Ben Stiller
“The first cut I do is usually between five and 10 minutes shorter then the cut that we release. Anything I think isn't working or might not work, I don't even put it in the director's cut. And usually it's the studio suggesting I put stuff back in, as opposed to studios saying, "You got to lose 40 minutes," they are always saying, "You've got to gain five minutes."” ThinkingFirstsMightStuffLosesFiveCuttingMinutesDirectorsGainsStudiosReleaseFive MinutesSuggesting Author:Barry Sonnenfeld
“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 a five-minute version of. If you just extrapolate that through the whole movie, I have a very long version of every scene, usually because, if there's one funny joke, I'll shoot five because I don't know if the one I like is going to work. I'll get back-ups because my biggest fear is to be in previews, testing the movie, and a joke doesn't work, but I have no way to fix it because I have no other line.” IfsKnowsWayLongWholeThreeHoursLinesFiveCuttingMinutesSceneJokesShotsVersionsGet BackSecondsTestingGoing To WorkFive MinutesBiggest FearFunny JokesPreview Author:Judd Apatow
“It's just really, really beautiful. Each scene is one long 15 minute take without cutting. My scene is with Robin Wright-Penn so I'm pretty excited about that.” LongBeautifulCuttingMinutesSceneExcitedRobinsReally Beautiful Author:Jason Isaacs
“The Stones were always exemplary of one of the best of all rock qualities: tightness. They have always been economical, the opposite of ornamental. Having a very clear idea of what they wanted to say they could go into a studio and make it all up on a three minute cut.” IdeasWantedThreeQualityClearCuttingMinutesRocksStonesOppositesStudiosExemplary Author:Jon Landau
“If you take a big epic novel and you shoot it, when you get to the editing room you notice that it has 2 million climaxes, which fill the whole 90 or 100 minutes. Then you realize you can't cut them out because if somebody is dying and you cut that out it seems like they just disappear from the film.” IfsWholeBigsSeemsFilmRealizingRoomsMillionsNovelCuttingMinutesDyingDisappearEpicEditingClimax Author:Pirjo Honkasalo
“I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.” PeopleKnowsGivingWellsDoeMightReadingCuttingMinutesReflectionCarefulBreadBread And Butter Author:Arnold Bennett
“Damn, my first cut that I showed to distributors was probably about two hours and 20 minutes, even though my contract said two hours. So, I had to lose 20 minutes. It's incredible that it just keeps happening.” FirstsSaidTwoHoursLosesCuttingMinutesHappeningsIncrediblesDamnContractsDistributors Author:David Twohy
“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 went all the way up to an hour and forty-seven minutes. After that, I made some additional cuts and now we are where we are.” WayFirstsMadeStoriesWantedHoursCuttingMinutesDirectorsAddSevenStudiosFortyOne Minute Author:Kim Jee-woon
“If anybody normally has a 45 minute conference call about something, I'm 15 minutes late and then I'm out 15 minutes before everybody else, and I cut to the key information and I move on. I learned that from my dad and guys like Jason Blum, who know how to do that.” IfsKnowsMovingGuyKnow HowCuttingMinutesInformationKeysDadLateMy DadConferencesJasonConference Calls Author:Mark Duplass
“My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.” FirstsThreeHoursCuttingMinutesEditing Author:Mark Ruffalo
“I'm neurotic in the sense that I can have a crowd of 300 people cheering you, applauding you, standing O, but one guy come out of the audience and go, "Hey man, you should have cut 20 minutes. That wasn't so good." And I'll just obsess on that one guy. After all this love, I'll obsess on him and want to smash his face in and strangle him and kick him down the stairs and I'll be pouting about that one guy all night.” PeopleMenWantShouldI CanFacesNightGuyAudienceCuttingMinutesStandingShould HaveCrowdsHeyKicksCheerAll NightStairsNeuroticPouting Author:Wayne White
“Of course, I was a little concerned about it being over two hours [in "Aquarius" ]. "Neighboring Sounds" was two hours and eleven minutes. This is two hours and twenty-five minutes, and I did try bringing it down. For instance, I considered cutting out the sequence with the family looking at pictures.” TryingLittlesTwoCoursesSoundHoursFiveCuttingMinutesConcernedTwentiesInstanceFive MinutesSequenceElevenTwenty FiveEleven MinutesAquarius Author:Sonia Braga