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I can always make things longer than I intend for them to be, but cutting things down is just brutal. It's like cutting off your fingers every time you lose a word.

— Stephenie Meyer

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?

— Ted Nelson

At some point, I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it; that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.

— Jane Hirshfield

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.

— Ang Lee

I can make something for a long time and just not come up with an ending. It's finishing things that I don't enjoy.

— Jamie xx

I don't believe in director's cuts where you make things longer. The coolest thing was when the Coen brothers did a director's cut of 'Blood Simple,' and they made it shorter.

— Jason Reitman

I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.

— Carla Bruni

I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.

— Ken Burns

✗Opposing Perspectives

I can't imagine going back to long hair. Cutting it was the greatest thing I ever did.

— Robin Wright

The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.

— S. Jay Olshansky

I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.

— Kate Moss