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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.
A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.
Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.
What I don't have in theater is editing.
My father's films are often very slow for the modern audiences, which are used to a lot of editing. It's the audience that watches the film instead of the director dictating the reaction he wants from you.
You act in a movie, and at the end of the day, the director and editor decide what your performance is.
The parts of a film should be in proportion to the whole, and a long film pasted together out of quick little scenes makes me dizzy.
When you make a movie, you know you're making a long-form thing, so the visuals are different than for a video where it has to be more obvious or in your face, I think, a little bit.
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.