David Fincher Quotes

The worst thing for people to say about your movies is, "Yeah, it was pretty good, but it was too damn long.".

I'd love most of the movies I make to be four hours long.

I'm not a long movie person. I have a very short attention span. If you give me a 90-minute movie, that's perfect. When it gets to be two hours, that's a little bit too long for me.

I would love to do some crazy action or even a real romantic comedy. I think that would be really exciting.

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

Short films don't go too far.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

My two favorite movies are 'Coming to America' and 'Boomerang'.

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.

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

I like four-hour movies.

I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi; something with very important subject matters.

I'd always been quite wary of doing a romantic comedy. They all seem the same to me.

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

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.

I love romantic comedies so much.

I just think a lot of movies are too long. I want to know how to make my movie as tight as possible.

I think movies are too long.

I've learned that I really want to shoot short films on a short schedule. There can be very good films that run 110 minutes, but 90 minutes is beautiful.

I'm not a great fan of very short films.

In Tamil, three-hour films are normal.

And to be fair, most documentaries are half an hour too long, anyway. Let's not kid ourselves. Most movies are an hour too long. I will say that the internet has changed everything in terms of distribution and because of iTunes and other outlets like that, length is no longer something you really think about, in my opinion. It's irrelevant.

Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella.

I don't think there's that many great 90-minute comedies.