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There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut.

There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

When you're making a bigger movie, you have much bigger set pieces that require more time and more effort and more people.

Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.

I don't believe moviegoers don't have patience. Screenwriters are told a scene can't be longer than three minutes, that you have to cut to the chase. Not true!

We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter.

I think movies are too long.

You have to find the movie in the editing room, and it can't be four hours; it has to be two hours.