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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.

For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.

One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there.

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

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.