“Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock.” HouseHoursWalksHalfFiveMinutesRocksFive MinutesParadesHalf Hours Author:Jason Sudeikis
“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
“My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.” IfsHappensHoursHalfMinutesDrawingHalf Hours Author:Ellsworth Kelly
“I've always believed that the range or depth of emotion can be great, whether you're play a three-minute piece, or a half-hour work.” PlayThreeHoursEmotionHalfPiecesMinutesDepthRangeAlways BelieveHalf Hours Author:Anne Akiko Meyers
“Our [American] money system is structurally brittle. It doesn't matter if you put a very clever guy or a stupid guy at the wheel. The clever guy will take a half hour to have an accident, and the stupid guy will take ten minutes.” IfsMatterGuyHoursHalfMinutesStupidTenAccidentsCleverWheelsHalf HoursVery CleverStupid Guy Author:Bernard Lietaer
“To a large extent: it's about economy of space. You have so little real estate when you're writing a half hour show. It's really twenty minutes. So you have to with a pilot introduce all your characters, set up the premise in a way that shows the potential for a series and make it funny and do it all in about thirty-five or forty pages. It's very hard.” WayWritingLittlesRealHardCharacterShowsHoursSpaceHalfEconomyFiveMinutesPagesTwentiesSeriesThirtyFortyPilotsIntroducingEstatesPremisesHalf Hours Author:Jonathan M. Goldstein
“The cousin said that Gypsy [Rose Lee] took a full fifteen minutes to peel off a single glove, and that she was so damn good at it he gladly would've given her fifteen more. So this story got me thinking, who was Gypsy Rose Lee? Who could possibly take the simple act of peeling off a glove and make it so riveting that one might be compelled to watch this for a full half-hour? So I began researching, and I came across a series of articles from the year 1940 about Gypsy in Life magazine.” ThinkingYearsSaidStoriesMightGivenHoursSimpleHalfWatchesMinutesRoseSeriesMagazinesDamnArticlesFifteenCompelledCousinGlovesGypsyHalf HoursPeelingDamn Good Author:Karen Abbott