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There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes.

Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.

I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much... and it flows. I've tried to go in that direction.

Some scenes comes together really quickly, and some scenes are disasters that take forever. But it sort of works itself out over time.

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.

I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

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 write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.

Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had.