You have to find the movie in the editing room, and it can't be four hours; it has to be two hours.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It takes a long time to get a film made.
Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.
If you have skills to pull off even a four-hour film, people will go and watch it.
When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.
The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
You could do a scene that takes 15 hours, but in the movie, it's only 10 minutes. The scene where they put the sauce poisoning in; it took eight hours.
That would be getting up at 5 am... I don't understand why film's shoot such brutal hours. I think it'd be worth it to not be so strictly cost-effective and have an 8 hour day. The film's would benefit in the end.
It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
In a film you only get two hours to do this big arc and so you have to pick and choose your moments carefully, but with television you get to take your time and just take it episode by episode and discover new things.
If you go to a bad movie, it's two hours. If you're in a bad movie, it's two years.