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In the old days, you cut out a scene that might've been a really great scene, and no one was ever going to see it ever again. Now, with DVD, you can obviously... there's a lot of possibilities for scenes that are good scenes.

I've cut myself out... I've cut scenes out that I was in and that's when you realize that you've got to make the best movie you can.

I think I'm a very sentimental person. Conscious or not, that's what draws me to the kind of films I want to make.

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.

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

I have been very lucky to have final cut in all my films; everything that is wrong in them is my fault.

Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other film I will make for the rest of my life.

There's something about seeing a movie that you like, and being able to see the scenes that didn't make it, just as a window into the process of how choices are made and how a movie is made. To me, the idea of getting to have the scenes on the DVD is very exciting.

I love those films where I feel the director's confidence - where he doesn't need to overdo it with the shots and the cuts.

When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.