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I think most documentaries are too long.

I don't like extremely long movies. I tend to get a bit impatient. There are definitely exceptions, like 'Lawrence of Arabia,' but for the most part, I feel that movies should usually be shorter and not longer.

Short films don't go too far.

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

I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

Making a movie is difficult enough to sort of have a premeditated length that you're going for. I don't know a single filmmaker on the planet who does that.

I think there are way too many films made, and I've probably made way too many films.

If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end. You either make a five hour movie or you leave out stuff that should be in there.

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.